This anthology brings together the poetry of the everyday, the vastly popular, and the verse of writers now known only for their prose including Twain, Dreiser, Garland, Lewis, and Cather. Illustrates the vigor and variety of the seedbed that nourished the literary art of Howells, Sandburg, and Eliot.

This anthology brings together the poetry of the everyday, the vastly popular, and the verse of writers now known only for their prose including Twain, Dreiser, Garland, Lewis, and Cather. Illustrates the vigor and variety of the seedbed that nourished the literary art of Howells, Sandburg, and Eliot.