First Published in 2004. From Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, this collection of two volumes, selected by John Hollander, gives an insight into the artform during the nineteenth century. This collection is sorted by author with focus on American Indian Poetry, Folk Songs and Spirituals. An extensive list of works with attention to their chronology and editor notes on the texts within.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Philip Freneau (1752-1832); Chapter 2 Joel Barlow (1754-1812); Chapter 3 Manoah Bodman (1765-1850); Chapter 4 John Quincy Adams (1767-1848); Chapter 5 James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860); Chapter 6 Clement Moore (1779-1863); Chapter 7 Francis Scott Key (1779-1843); Chapter 8 Washington Allston (1779-1843); Chapter 9 Johnpierpont (1785-1866); Chapter 10 Samuel Woodworth (1785-1842); Chapter 11 Richard Henry Dana (1787-1879); Chapter 12 Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847); Chapter 12 Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867); Chapter 14 John Howard Payne (1791-1852); Chapter 15 Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865); Chapter 16 Johnneal (1793-1876); Chapter 17 Carlos Wilcox (1794-1827); Chapter 18 William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878); Chapter 19 Maria Gowen Brooks (1794?-1845); Chapter 20 Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820); Chapter 21 James Gates Percival (1795-1856); Chapter 22 George Moses Horton (1798?-1883?); Chapter 23 Samuel Henry Dickson (1798-1872); Chapter 24 A. Bronson Alcott (1799-1888); Chapter 25 Thomas Cole (1801-1848); Chapter 26 Edward Coote Pinkney (1802-1828); Chapter 27 George Pope Morris (1802-1864); Chapter 28 Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880); Chapter 29 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882); Chapter 30 Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878); Chapter 31 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864); Chapter 32 Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867); Chapter 33 William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870); Chapter 34 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882); Chapter 35 John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892); Chapter 36 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849); Chapter 37 Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865); Chapter 38 Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894); Chapter 39 Thomas Holley Chivers (1809-1858); Chapter 40 Fanny Kemble (1809-1893); Chapter 41 Margaret Fuller (1810-1850); Chapter 42 Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876); Chapter 43 Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892); Chapter 44 Charles Timothy Brooks (1813-1883); Chapter 45 Jones Very (1813-1880); Chapter 46 Epes Sargent (1813-1880); Chapter 47 Daniel Decatur Emmett; Chapter 48 Philip Pendleton Cooke (1816-1850); Chapter 49 Josiah D. Canning (1816-1892); Chapter 50 Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862); Chapter 51 Cornelius Mathews (1817-1889); Chapter 52 William Ellery Channing (1818-1901); Chapter 53 William Wetmore Story (1819-1895); Chapter 54 James Russell Lowell (1819-1891); Chapter 55 Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910); Chapter 56 Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881); Chapter 57 Thomas Dunn English (1819-1902); Chapter 58 Walt Whitman (1819-1892); Chapter 59 Chronology; Biographical Notes; Note on the Texts;