A LIBRARY OF POETRY AND SONG BEING CHOICE SELECTIONS FROM THE BEST POETS. With an introduction by William Cullen Bryant

Revised and updated edition. Profusely illustrated with a steel engraved frontispiece portrait of William Cullen Bryant, 16 wood engravings, and 25 facsimiles of autograph manuscripts of the poets. 8vo, in the publisher’s binding of brown cloth, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt and with a black decorative design of a vase with flowers, the covers black ruled and decorated in a geometric pattern on the covers, and the upper cover also decorated with a central gilt and black oval design. xxxi, 789 pp. A very pleasing and well preserved copy with very minor rubbing to the extremities, internally clean and bright.

Edizione: an impressive collection of the great poets and poems arranged by theme. poems of childhood, friendship, love, sorrow, religion, nature and much more. among the many poets included are coleridge, wordsworth, shakespeare, milton, shelley, scott, emerson, longfellow, browning, poe, and stowe. <br> american poet william cullen bryant made a name for himself when his romantic blank verse meditation ”thanatopsis” was published by the ‘north american review’ in 1817. his long career was divided between his many published collections of poetry and the 50 years he spent as editor of the ‘new york evening post’.