A Treasury of American Poetry Mandelbaum Richardson Gramercy 733pg HC Jacket For Sale

Seven hundred and thirty-three pages, roughly eight hundred poems, and about a hundred and fifty American poets from the colonial period through the early twentieth century - this is the big one-volume American anthology, the kind of book that answers most of the questions a reading list can throw at it. Dickinson, Whitman, Frost, Eliot, Poe, Longfellow and Millay are all here, and so are the voices that get left out of thinner collections: Native American songs, African American spirituals, hymns, ballads and carols, and immigrant poets writing their way into the language. Allen Mandelbaum was one of the great American translators - his versions of Dante, Homer and Virgil are standards - and Robert D. Richardson Jr. wrote the definitive biographies of Emerson and Thoreau, so the editorial hand behind the selection is a serious one. It is indexed by poet and by first line, which is what makes it genuinely usable: you can find the poem you half-remember. This volume was previously published as Three Centuries of American Poetry.

📚 Book Details

• 🏢 Publisher: Gramercy Books, New York - an imprint of Random House Value Publishing, by arrangement with Bantam Books
• 📅 Date: This Gramercy edition 2003; text copyright 1999
• 📄 Format: Hardcover with the original dust jacket; 733 pages
• 🔖 ISBN: 0-517-22153-5 (ISBN-13 9780517221532)
• 📖 Also published as: Three Centuries of American Poetry (Bantam Books, 1999) - same contents under the earlier title
• 🖋️ Scope: Roughly 800 poems by about 150 American poets, from the Colonial era through the early twentieth century
• 🎵 Includes: Songs, hymns, spirituals, ballads and carols alongside the canonical verse
• 🔍 Indexed: By poet and by first line
• ✅ Best For: Homeschool and high school American literature, college survey courses, teachers building poetry units, memory-work and recitation, and anyone who wants one American anthology instead of six

📋 Condition: Like New — dust jacket graded separately as Pristine

• ⚠️ Minor wear to the front cover
• ⚠️ The bright streaks across the cover in the photographs are camera glare off the glossy surface, not damage
• ⚠️ Not every one of the 733 pages was photographed
• ✅ No library markings of any kind - no spine call-number label, no stamp, no card pocket, no date-due slip, and no discard or withdrawn mark inside or out
• ✅ Interior pages clean and white - no writing, highlighting, underlining or foxing found
• ✅ Dust jacket PRISTINE - graded separately, in hand: bright and unmarked, with no tears, chips, creasing, rubbing or edge wear
• ✅ Binding tight and intact

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