Vol. 2: E.E. Cummings / H.L. Davis / Rolfe Humphries / Eugene Jolas / H. Phelps Putnam / Charles Reznikoff / Bessie Smith / Genevieve Taggard / Jean Toomer / Mark Van Doren / Alter Brody / Babette Deutsch / Abraham Lincoln Gillespie / Oscar Hammerstein II / Lorenz Hart / Robert Hillyer / Edmund Wilson / John Dos Passos / Thomas Hornsby Ferril / Ira Gershwin / Ramon Guthrie / E.Y. Harburg / Isidor Schneider / Louise Bogan / Emanuel Carnevali / Blind Lemon Jefferson / Walter Lowenfels / David McCord / John Wheelwright / Stephen Vincent Benét / Malcolm Cowley / Harry Crosby / Horace Gregory / Melvin B. Tolson / Léonie Adams / Hart Crane / Thomas A. Dorsey / Hildegarde Flanner / Janet Lewis / Joseph Moncure March / Vladimir Nabokov / Lynn Riggs / Allen Tate / Edward Dahlbert / Yvor Winters / Sterling A. Brown / Robert Francis / Lindley Williams Hubbell / Laura Riding / Arna Bontemps / Kenneth Fearing / Langston Hughes / Ogden Nash / Eve Triem / Countee Cullen / Edwin Denby / Dudley Fitts / Brewster Ghiselin / Lorine Niedecker / Carl Rakosi / R.P. Blackmur / Richard Eberhart / John Holmes / Louis Zukofsky / Howard Baker / Frank Marshall Davis / Dorothy Fileds / Stanley Kunitz / Phyllis McGinley / Kenneth Rexroth / Byron Vazakas / Robert Penn Warren / Stanley Burnshaw / Waring Cuney / Joseph Kalar / Richmond Lattimore / Helene Johnson / Lincoln Kirstein / Constance Carrier / Alton Delmore / Josephine Jacobsen / George Oppen / Theodore Roethke / Richard Wright / Helen Adam / James Agee / Mary Barnard / Johnny Mercer / Elder Olson / Edwin Rolfe / Bukka White / Robert Fitzgerald / Frank Loesser / Rosalie Moore / Charles Olson / Winfield Townley Scott / Ben Belitt / Elizabeth Bishop / J.V. Cunningham / Rose Drachler / Paul Goodman / Robert Johnson / Josephine Miles / Kenneth Patchen / Hyam Plutzik / Anne Porter / Tennessee Williams / John Cage / William Everson / Jean Garrigue / Woody Guthrie / Lightnin' Hopkins / May Sarton / Virginia Hamilton Adair / Charles Henri Ford / Robert Hayden / John Frederick Nims / Muriel Rukeyser / David Schubert / Delmore Schwartz / Karl Shapiro / May Swenson.
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Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens.