Poetry for young people American Poetry
By: ; edited by John Hollander, Ph. D. ; illustrated by Sally Wern Comport
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780439721257; 9781402705175
Other titles: American Poetry
Notes: Reprint: Originally published: New York : Sterling Pub. Co.

"First Scholastic printing, November 2004"--T.p. verso.

"This edition is only available for distribution through the school market."--P. [4] of cover.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: I hear America singing / Walt Whitman; title: American names / Stephen Vincent Benet; title: Indian names / Lydia Huntley Sigourney; title: Navajo blanket / May Swenson; title: Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson; title: Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes; title: Defence of Fort McHenry / Francis Scott Key; title: New Colossus / Emma Lazarus; title: Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens; title: Portrait VIII; title: O captain! My captain! / Walt Whitman; title: Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes; title: To an American painter departing for Europe / William Cullen Bryant; title: Casey at the bat / Ernest Thayer; title: House on the hill / Edward Arlington Robinson; title: Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost; title: Great figure / William Carlos Williams; title: Amherst train / Emily Dickinson; title: Engine / Ella Wheeler Wilcox; title: Virginia / T. S. Eliot; title: On the Mississippi / Hamlin Garland; title: Harlem Hopscotch / Maya Angelou; title: Jazz Fantasia / Carl Sandburg; title: America for me / Henry Van Dyke; title: America / Claude McKay; title: Rockets that reached Saturn / Vachel Lindsay; title: Index.