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Four Centuries of American Poetry
(5 volumes—plus a FREE book)

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This Library of America edition of classic American poetry includes the following five books:

American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | 952 pages
More than 300 poems by more than 100 poets, including many never published before

American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century:
Volume one (Freneau to Whitman)
| 1,099 pages
Poe • Emerson • Bryant • Hawthorne • Longfellow • Whittier • Whitman • 51 others

American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century:
Volume two (Melville to Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals)
| 1,050 pages
Melville • Tuckerman • Dickinson • Howells • Lanier • Bierce • Crane • Robinson • Wharton • 74 others

American Poetry: The Twentieth Century:
Volume one (Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker)
| 986 pages
Robinson • Frost • Stevens • Williams • Moore • H.D. • Pound • Eliot • Millay • 75 others

American Poetry: The Twentieth Century:
Volume two (E. E. Cummings to May Swenson)
| 986 pages
Cummings • Crane • Tate • Hughes • Zukofsky • Warren • Roethke • Bishop • Schwartz • 113 others

Also, FREE with your set ($20 in bookstores!):
American Sonnets: An Anthology (American Poets Project) | 232 pages

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Edith Wharton: Novels, Novellas, Stories, and Other Writings (4-book set, plus a free book)

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