The Yale Book of American Verse is a collection of poems compiled by Thomas R. Lounsbury and published in 1912. It features a comprehensive selection of poems from some of the most notable American poets, including Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, among others. The book is divided into several sections, each covering a specific period in American poetry, from the colonial period to the early 20th century...