Penguin brings you the finest short verse by the greatest writersA classic anthology of American poetry, from the colonial beginnings in the seventeenth century right through to the twentieth century. From Anne Bradstreet to Ralph Waldo Emerson, from William Carlos Williams to Walt Whitman, from Emily Dickenson to Ai, this collection ranges widely across the American poetic spectrum. 'A representative anthology which will give pleasure to the general reader and at the same time presents a full range of American poetry of all periods' The Times Literary Supplement'A wine tasting, an eminently useful book' Sunday Times