A LITTLE TREASURY OF THE
GREAT POETRY OF THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Edited
by
OSCAR WILLIAMS
Volume 1:
The specially boxed set of two
famous anthologies of verse
A LITTLE TREASURY OF GREAT POETRY
"This is a superb anthology of the best in British and
American poetry from Chaucer to the present day"–
Christian Century
Volume II:
A LITTLE TREASURY OF MODERN POETRY
"The
b~st sin~le
collection of twentieth-century po–
etry. . . .
-Nation
"The total effect is not only completely representative
but brilliantly selected"-Herbert Read
Together these two volumes, although comfort–
ably small, contain almost
1,000
Poems.
300
po1ts
are represented in all, and there are
128
of their
Portraits and Photographs in two special sections.
$7.50
SELECTED POEMS
by
OSCAR WILLIAMS
"Mr. Williams' poems are probably the most
authentic literary expressions of urban life being
written today. He is without doubt a superior poet
with a wide dexterity in the use of forms and a
spectacular imagination."-JOHN MALCOLM
BRINNIN in the
New York Herald Tribune
$2.50
'
at all bookstores
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK
