Edited by CONRAD AIKEN

The vigor and diversity of contemporary American poetry are made strikingly manifest in this newly revised anthology. The selections by Conrad Aiken are distinguished for their good taste and the wide range of poetic gifts they reveal. Each of the poets in this volume is generously represented by from a few to a dozen or more poems. Their names constitute an honor roll of writers who have given to our national poetry a new intensity and strength. They speak for a half century of growth in America.