ocr: Early. American poets came in many shapes and sizes- solitary visionaries and congenial story-tellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers, immigrants and Native Americans- - and all are represented in this astonishingly comprehensive D-ROME - based on the two-volume anthology published by The Library of America. Amercan Poetry: The Nineteenth Century extends chronologically from the classical couplets of Philip Freneau through the pioneering free verse of Walt Whitman to the modemnist stirings of Stephen Crane. In addition to generous selections of such well-known poets as ...
