i discovered an old, beat up early 1900's copy of this at agarage sale and have since fallen in love with it. every possiblefamous poem from any genre can be found in it...plus, it is the only anthology to contain my favorite poem of all time, "the maniac" by george monk lewis.

If you like pre-twentieth century English and American poetry you should like this volume. If you are looking for only one anthology of such poetry to buy, I would recommend this one.

William Cullen Bryant is America's foremost Romantic poet, and I am amazed to see his poetry so neglected in the America of today. Overshadowed by Whitman and the free verse followers of the twentieth century, Bryant, as well as all formal American poets of the 1800's, deserve a Renaissance. And this rebirth of formalism in poetry will be slow in coming if the poetry essential to any aspiring poet's collecion runs for 79.00 plus shipping. If you have just that much space in your virtual shopping cart, I strongly recommend this beautiful American Romantic.

my book is dated 1878 and is a hard bound I enjoy reading this to my kids...some is rather deep and dark, as he talks alot of death, but it is interesting.

"Picturesque America" is a collection of almost 50 wood and steel engravings that was originally issued in 1874 under the auspices of William Cullen Bryant. This collection, issued in 1974, by Oliver Jensen of American Heritage Magazine is essentially a second look at this late nineteenth century self-portrait through more modern eyes.

As Oliver Jensen states in his preface, these pictures are an idealized view of our country, and are not to be taken as representative. The engravings are by both well-known and obscure artists, and all are beautifully done. Here are pictures of various cities, rivers, mountains, and lakes from the Gilded Age, but without any of that period's cynicism. Even the cities seem to take on a pastoral quality that is both striking and impossibly sentimental. If you want to see how artists viewed the idealistic and proud hopes of late nineteenth century America, then I recommend this book. If you want to see photographs of the late nineteenth century, then I recommend "American Album" and "America's Yesterdays," both by Oliver Jensen or Michael Lesy's "Dreamland" .