Modern American Poetry; a Critical Anthology, 4th Revised Edition

New York; (1931): Harcourt, Brace and Co. Octavo. xxxviii, 850 pages. As the Great Depression continued, the book was greatly reduced in poem and size. Inscribed by Louis Untermeyer to the controversial Methodist bishop G. Bromiley Oxname and his wife: "remembering the most sub-tropical and the most delightful day every spent by Louis Untermeyer." Among the most important poets included in this edition are: Emily Dickinson; T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, and Robert Penn Warren. October, 1933. Emily Dickinson -- Helen Hunt Jackson -- John Burroughs --Sidney Lanier -- James Whitcomb Riley -- Eugene Field --George Santayana -- George Sterling -- Edwin Arlington (truncated) Robinson -- Edgar Lee Masters -- James Weldon Johnson -- Paul Laurence Dunbar-- Amy Lowell -- Robert Frost -- Carl Sandburg -- Vachel Lindsay -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- -- Sara Teasdale -- Ezra Pound --John Hall Wheelock -- -- Marianne Moore -- Robinson Jeffers -- Elinor Wylie -- T. S. Eliot -- Claude McKay--Edmund Wilson --E. E. Cummings -- Stephen Vincent Benét -Malcolm Cowley --Allen Tate -- Hart Crane -- Langston Hughes -- Countée Cullen-- Robert Penn Warren. Beautifully bound in full tree calf by Riviere Bindery, boards triple ruled in gilt, raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated, red and black contrasting morocco spine labels gilt, top edge gilt, inner gilt denteels and marbled paper. A very handsome copy. (Inventory #: 027023)