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The Voice That is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century

by Hayden Carruth, Susan Kagen Podell · 1981

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This famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major American poets of the modern period—Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks among them—along with short biographies of each.

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