The Criterion Book of Modern American Verse

Edited by
W.H. Auden
Criterion Books
New York
1956


With an Introduction by W.H. Auden.
[8], 336 p.; 21.5 cm. (8.5 inches). Black cloth spine, with silver-stamped spine title, patterned red, green, and off-white paper over boards. No dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments, Index of Authors, and Index of First Lines.

Contains some verses from the following authors: Edwin Arlington Robinson; Edgar Lee Masters; Stephen Crane; Trumble Stickney; Gertrude Stein; Robert Frost; Don Marquis; Carl Sandburg; Vachel Lindsay; Wallace Stevens; Witter Bynner; William Carlos Williams; Elinor Wylie; Ezra Pound; Louis Untermeyer; John Gould Fletcher; H.D; John Hall Wheelock; Robinson Jeffers; Marianne Moore; John Crowe Ranson; Conrad Aiken; Edna St. Vincent Millay; John Peale Bishop; Tristram Coffin; Archibald Macleish; Samuel Greenberg; Dorothy Parker; Mark Van Doren; E.E. Cummings; Rolfe Humphries; Edmund Wilson; Louise Bogan; John Wheelright; Stephen Vincent Benét; Horace Gregory; Hart Crane; Allen Tate; Léonie Adams; Ivor Winters; Janet Lewis; Oscar Williams; Robert Francis; Theodore Spencer; Ogden Nash; Marta Zaturenika; Merrill Moore; Edwin Denby; Richard Blackmur; John Holmes; Richard Eberhardt; Kenneth Rexroth; Stanley Kunitz; Phyllis McGinley; Robert Penn Warren; José Garcia Villa; Paul Engle; Theodore Roethke; James Agee; Robert Fitzgerald; Winfield Townley Scott; Josephine Miles; Kenneth Patchen; Elizabeth Bishop; Delmore Schwartz; Karl Shapiro; Randall Jarrell; John Berryman; Thomas Merton; Peter Viereck; Samuel French Morse; Howard Griffin; Robert Lowell; Walker Gibson; Robert Duncan; James Broughton; Chester Kallman; Richard Wilbur; Dachine Rainer; Robert Horan; and Anthony Hecht.

Book is in Very Good Plus Condition: pages clean, tight, and unmarked; small fore-edge chip on back cover; both covers slightly soiled.


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