The Yale Book of American Verse. Ed. Thomas
R. Lounsberry. 5 Oct. 2000.
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The
Yale Book of American Verse is an outstanding compilation of poetry
from various American poets who were considered prominent by the year of
1912. This site is an online book that is a publication originally
released from the presses in 1912 by Yale University Press and edited by
Thomas R. Lounsberry, a prominent historian and critic of American literature
who paved the way for English literature and the history of English language
to be separate disciplines in the university setting. Lounsberry
also wrote invaluable works on Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Browning in addition
to editing this work. Lounsberry died in 1915 and therefore was unable
to expand this volume further. However, this is an invaluable sight
for anyone seeking American poetry written before 1912, even some poetry
that may be rare to find in printed form due to a featured poet's waning
popularity. The site's greatest accolade is its ease of use as it
includes links on the home page to information about the credibility of
Lounsberry, chronological and alphabetical listings of American poets,
and indexes of both titles and first lines. Among the poets featured
on this site are William Culleen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. Each author
has one or more of his works linked to an online source so the student
of poetry can instantaneously access the poem he wishes to read. Nuremberg,
Raven, Voiceless, Shakespeare, and the famous Star-Spangled Banner
are
just a few of the poems featured on this site, which is published under
the auspices of the Elizabethan Club of Yale University.