Reviews

American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1: Freneau to Whitman by Carlos Wilcox, Charles Timothy Brooks, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Cole, William Gilmore Simms, James Gates Percival, George Moses Horton, Epes W. Sargent, Richard Henry Dana, Francis Scott Key, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Philip Pendleton Cooke, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Joel Barlow, J.G. Holland, John Neal, Margaret Fuller, Richard Henry Wilde, Daniel Decatur Emmett, Clement C. Moore, John Pierpont, William Ellery Channing, Thomas Dunn English, William Wetmore Story, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Josiah D. Canning, John Greenleaf Whittier, Sarah Helen Whitman, James Kirke Paulding, George Pope Morris, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Joseph Rodman Drake, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lydia Maria Child, Cornelius Mathews, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Holley Chivers, James Russell Lowell, Samuel Woodworth, Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Washington Allston, John Hollander, L.H. Sigourney, Amos Bronson Alcott, Maria Gowen Brooks, Manoah Bodman, William Cullen Bryant, Edward Coote Pinkney, Philip Freneau, Jones Very, John Howard Payne, Samuel Henry Dickson, Fanny Kemble, Julia Ward Howe, John Quincy Adams

bookkeeper_steve's review against another edition

5.0

Read volume 1 and 2. Stickney and Lanier are real su'prises. Took me forever because Melville is a tough read even at his best. Volume 1 really didn't have any su'prises. I would say read Cullen Bryant if you haven't already. I also read American Poetry: 17th and 18th Century which I would also suggest. I have American poetry: 20th Century volumes 1 and 2 on my shelf (although I am getting tired of Ezra, Stevens, Eliot) which I look forward to reading.

I would suggest reading the 19th century because John Hollander edited the volumes and he has good taste.