This database includes the works of more than 200 American poets, along with six landmark anthologies of American poetry.
Works span the colonial period to the early twentieth century.
The database contains over 35,000 poems, and is based on the Bibliography of American Literature , Yale University Press, 1955-1991. It includes the works of all major poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and John Greenleaf Whittier. It also covers less familiar names, such as Elizabeth Akers Allen, Richard Emmons, Lemuel Hopkins and Elizabeth Townsend. To change to the Table of Contents , select Windows, Table of Contents . From here, you may scroll through all the titles in the database.