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The Voice That Is Great Within Us

American Poetry of the Twentieth Century

By Hayden Carruth

By Hayden Carruth

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Sep 01, 1983 | ISBN 9780553262636

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About The Voice That Is Great Within Us

“What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry! In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done well and done ill, this much at least we have done superlatively.”—Hayden Carruth

This famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major American poets of the modern period—Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, Carl Sandburg, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and Gwendolyn Brooks among them—along with short biographies of each.

“Not only the best on its period, I think, but is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals.”—Robert Lowell

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About Hayden Carruth

Hayden Carruth (1921–2008) lived for many years in northern Vermont, then moved to upstate New York, where he taught at Syracuse University. He won the National Book Award for Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, and his Collected Shorter Poems received the National Book Critics Circle… More about Hayden Carruth

Product Details

Category: Poetry | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

Mass Market Paperback | $10.00
Published by Bantam
Sep 01, 1983 | 768 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553262636

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"Not only the best on its period, I think, but it is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals."
–Robert Lowell

"What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry!  In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done well and done ill, this much at least we have done superlatively."
–Hayden Carruth

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