This book is a collection of the selected
works of America’s greatest poets, everyone from Edgar Allan Poe to Ezra Pound,
Emily Dickinson to Robert Frost and even former president Abe Lincoln is present. This book also includes the works of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen that captured, in verse, the plight of the African American Community in the early 1900s. Apart from the
poems,
poetry lovers will thoroughly enjoy reading the mini-biographies of America’s best loved poets included before each poem. 101 Great American Poems is a little gem that scholars of life should not miss out on.