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First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. An important anthology arranged by type of poetry,rather than strictly chronologically - includes a generous selection of poems from most of the writers. Forms of poetry include "orator poets" (Lucy Terry, Jupiter Hammon, Gustavas Vassa, George Moses Horton, Frances E.W. Harper and others), formalist poets (Phillis Wheatley, Ann Plato, George Marion McLlelan, and Henrietta Cordelia Ray) ; romantic poets (John Boyd, Benjamin Clark, Joseph Seamen Cotter, several Creole poets, and others) and dialect poets (James Edwin Campbell, Daniel Webster Davis, Elliott B. Henderson, J. Mord Allen and James B. Carrothers.) Includes a general introduction by Robinson, several appendices, bibliography, index. xvii, 275 pp. Good condition overall in stiff illustrated wrappers (ink annotations on approx 20 pp.) .ISBN # 0-697039536 

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