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American Poetry, 1600-1900
This new resource contains over 40,000 poems by more than 200 poets, covering the Colonial period to the early twentieth century, and drawn from over 1,200 printed sources.

The collection begins with early Colonial poems such as John Wilson's 'A Song of Thanksgiving for the Lasting Remembrance of God's Wonderful Works' (1603), continues to the 19th century with works like Bayard Taylor's 'The Ballad of Abraham Lincoln' (1870).  Early twentieth-century writers such as Adelaide Crapsey and Vachel Lindsay are also included.

For the first time, major canonical poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, and important literary groups, such as the Transcendentalists and the Knickerbocker school, can be read alongside substantial bodies of work by less familiar names such as Celia Thaxter, Richard Emmons, and Emma Lazarus.

Searching is available by keyword, first line, or poet. Retrieval can also be limited to gender, ethnicity, literary period, rhymed poems, and year.