Anne Bradstreet -- Edward Taylor -- Philip Freneau -- Joel Barlow -- William Cullen Bryant -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Jones Very -- Henry David Thoreau -- James Russell Lowell -- Walt Whitman -- Herman Melville -- Henry Timrod -- Emily Dickinson -- Sidney Lanier -- William Vaughn Moody -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Edgar Lee Masters -- Trumbull Stickney -- Amy Lowell -- Robert Frost -- Carl Sandburg -- Vachel Lindsay -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Elinor Wylie -- Ezra Pound -- H.D. -- Marianne Moore -- Robinson Jeffers -- T.S. Eliot -- John Crowe Ransom -- Conrad Aiken -- John Peale Bishop -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Archibald Macleish -- Phelps Putman -- E.E. Cummings -- Stephen Vincent Benet -- Hart Crane -- Allen Tate -- Howard Baker -- Robert Penn Warren. W.H. Auden -- Delmore Schwartz -- Karl Shapiro -- Randall Jarrell -- Robert Lowell.

Fifty-one poets are represented in this anthology which covers the whole range of American poetry from colonial times to the present. The greater part is devoted to the best work of the past fifty years.