The Poets and Poetry of America

The Poets and Poetry of America  (1842)  by Rufus Wilmot Griswold

To the Reader→

anthology of poetry

Title page of the 1855 edition of The Poets and Poetry of America

To

WASHINGTON ALLSTON

The eldest of the living poets of America

and the

most illustrious of her painters

This Work

is respectfully dedicated

• To the Reader
• Historical Introduction
• Contents