Editing Faber Book of Modern American Verse

{{Short description|Poetry anthology}}
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[[File:FaberBookOfModernAmericanVerse.jpg|thumb|First edition]]
The '''''Faber Book of Modern American Verse''''' was a [[poetry anthology]] edited by [[W. H. Auden]], and published in London in 1956 by [[Faber and Faber]]. Auden had moved from the UK to the United States in 1939, and had been directly involved in the American poetry scene, particularly through his time spent on the [[Yale Younger Poets]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Connolly |first=Cyril |date=1956-09-02 |title=Review of The Faber Book of Modern American Verse. |work=[[The Sunday Times]] |pages=5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1956-10-18 |title=Review of The Faber Book of Modern American Verse |work=The Times |pages=13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Alvarez |first=A. |date=1956-09-09 |title=Review of The Faber Book of Modern American Verse |work=Observer |pages=13}}</ref>

==Poets in the ''Faber Book of Modern American Verse''==
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* [[Léonie Adams]]
* [[James Agee]]
* [[Conrad Aiken]]
* [[Stephen Vincent Benét]]
* [[John Berryman]]
* [[Elizabeth Bishop]]
* [[John Peale Bishop]]
* [[Richard Blackmur]]
* [[Louise Bogan]]
* [[James Broughton]]
* [[Witter Bynner]]
* [[Tristram Coffin (poet)|Tristram Coffin]]
* [[Hart Crane]]
* [[Stephen Crane]]
* [[E. E. Cummings]]
* [[H. D.]]
* [[Edwin Denby (poet)|Edwin Denby]]
* [[Robert Duncan (poet)|Robert Duncan]]
* [[Richard Eberhart]]
* [[Paul Engle]]
* [[Robert Fitzgerald]] 
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* [[John Gould Fletcher]]
* [[Robert Francis (poet)|Robert Francis]]
* [[Robert Frost]]
* [[W. Walker Gibson]] (1919-2009)
* [[Samuel Greenberg]]
* [[Horace Gregory]] 
* [[Howard Griffin]] (1915-1975)
* [[Anthony Hecht]]
* [[John Holmes (poet)|John Holmes]]
* [[Robert Horan]]
* [[Rolfe Humphries]]
* [[Randall Jarrell]]
* [[Robinson Jeffers]]
* [[Chester Kallman]]
* [[Stanley Kunitz]]
* [[Janet Lewis]]
* [[Vachel Lindsay]]
* [[Robert Lowell]]
* [[Phyllis McGinley]]
* [[Archibald MacLeish]]
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* [[Don Marquis]] 
* [[Edgar Lee Masters]]
* [[Thomas Merton]]
* [[Josephine Miles]]
* [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]]
* [[Marianne Moore]]
* [[Merrill Moore]]
* [[Samuel French Morse]]
* [[Ogden Nash]]
* [[Dorothy Parker]]
* [[Kenneth Patchen]]
* [[Ezra Pound]]
* [[Dachine Rainer]] 
* [[John Crowe Ransom]]
* [[Kenneth Rexroth]]
* [[Edwin Arlington Robinson]]
* [[Theodore Roethke]]
* [[Carl Sandburg]]
* [[Delmore Schwartz]]
* [[Winfield Townley Scott]]
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* [[Karl Shapiro]]
* [[Theodore Spencer]]
* [[Gertrude Stein]]
* [[Wallace Stevens]]
* [[Trumbull Stickney]]
* [[Allen Tate]]
* [[Louis Untermeyer]]
* [[Mark Van Doren]]
* [[Peter Viereck]]
* [[José Garcia Villa]]
* [[Robert Penn Warren]]
* [[John Hall Wheelock]]
* [[John Brooks Wheelwright]]
* [[Richard Wilbur]]
* [[Oscar Williams (poet)|Oscar Williams]]
* [[William Carlos Williams]]
* [[Edmund Wilson]]
* [[Yvor Winters]]
* [[Elinor Wylie]]
* [[Marya Zaturenska]]
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==See also==
* [[1956 in poetry]]
* [[1956 in literature]]
* [[American poetry]]
* [[English poetry]]
* [[List of poetry anthologies]]

== References ==
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[[Category:1956 poetry books]]
[[Category:American poetry anthologies]]
[[Category:Faber & Faber books]]