Book Description
Publishing monthly without interruption, Poetry has become America's most distinguished magazine of verse, presenting, often for the very first time, virtually every notable poet of the last nine decades-an unprecedented record.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"Soon after it was founded by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry magazine became famous for printing the first poems of T. S. Eliot ("The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock"), Carl Sandburg ("Chicago Poems"), and Wallace Stevens ("Sunday Morning"), and revolutionary work by Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and many other then unknown but now classic authors." "Over nine decades, never missing a monthly issue, Poetry has presented virtually every significant poet of the twentieth century - often for the first time - and has become a legend in its own right." Decade by decade, this ninetieth-anniversary anthology from Poetry includes the poems of the major talents - along with several lesser known - in all their variety: William Butler Yeats, Edgar Lee Masters, Sara Teasdale, D. H. Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Vachel Lindsay, Robert Graves, May Sarton, Langston Hughes, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Hart Crane, Robert Penn Warren, Dylan Thomas, E. E. Cummings, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Merrill, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Robinson Jeffers, Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, Anne Sexton, Thom Gunn, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Maxine Kumin, Ted Hughes, Adrienne Rich, and Galway Kinnell.

FROM THE CRITICS

Ron Smith - TIMES-DISPATCH

For the lover of poetry there is much to savor here...

Richard Wakefield - SEATTLE TIMES

It is a fitting collection that not only features their work, but helped place them in the pantheon.

San Diego Union-Tribune

This anthology makes clear that American poetry is as powerful, diverse, and vibrant as ever.

David Yezzi - PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

...Feature[s] not only many of the 20th century's greatest poets, but also many of their famous poems.

AVATAR REVIEWS

...Give[s] a complex and comprehensive look at the magazine's influence during the last century...Read all 8 "From The Critics" >

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

...An invaluable retrospective on 20th-century poetry. — New York Times

...If only one representative poetry anthology were to be part of a lending collection, make it Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young's Poetry Anthology. — Midwest Book Review

...This is a book to reread, umpteen times. — Harvard Review