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Specimens of American poetry with critical and biographical notices.

Title
Specimens of American poetry with critical and biographical notices.
Author
Kettell, Samuel, 1800-1855
Publication
New York, B. Blom [1967]

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Description
3 v.; 20 cm.
Summary
These 454 selections from 188 authors form the first major verse anthology in the United States. Kettell, who knew many of the poets, pens personal and sometimes withering biographical essays to achieve a comprehensive rather than solely pantheonic collection.
Subject
  • American poetry
  • Authors, American
  • American poetry > Bibliography
  • Poets, American > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Bibliographies
  • Biographies
Note
  • Reprint of the 1829 ed.
  • "Catalogue of American poetry": v. 3, p. [377]-406.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
LCCN
^^^67012457^
OCLC
  • 222850
  • SCSB-11445879
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library