This comprehensive anthology gathers substantial selections by a half-dozen of America's most accomplished and influential poets. Here are Walt Whitman ("When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "A Noiseless Patient Spider," and "I Hear America Singing"); Emily Dickinson ("Because I Could Not Stop for Death" and "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"); and Langston Hughes ("Harlem" and "Dream Variations"). Here too are works by Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens. Joel Conarroe introduces each author with biographical information and comments on his or her poems.