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Vastly more comprehensive than any other anthology of American poetry on the market today, Three Centuries of American Poetry contains the work of more than 120 American poets -- more than three times more poets than the competition includes -- with historical, critical, and biographical notes on these poets and their poems.Award-winning teacher, poet, and translator Allen Mandelbaum, along with distinguished scholar Robert Richardson -- two of our foremost scholars of literature -- present a fresh interpretation of the American poetic canon, including, popular verse and ballads, in a single volume that will reshape our conceptions and become a standard text.