“This important, indeed groundbreaking, work promises to contribute immensely to our understanding of both early American literary culture and the history of American publishing and printing, while also opening up many avenues for fruitful future research. The result of a lifetime of work by Roger Stoddard, bookman extraordinaire, and diligently edited by David Whitesell, this bibliography provides a definitive record of the canon of early American poetry with detailed descriptions, many discoveries and new attributions, and extensive listings of holdings.”
—Michael Winship,University of Texas at Austin
“This descriptive bibliography stands as a landmark of bibliographical scholarship related to early American imprints of verse.”
—R. M. Roberts Choice
“This book is an outstanding scholarly achievement, the work of a scholarly lifetime to which students of early American poetry will be indebted for generations to come. Its meticulous research is judiciously assembled and framed so as to guarantee maximum ease of access to the more than one thousand works described.”
—Lawrence Buell,Harvard University
“This volume demonstrates to glorious effect what scrupulous bibliography can bring to literary history and critical evaluation. . . . Stoddard’s great achievement here is to encourage further scholarship on the appreciation of the poetry of early America all over the world, and not just in English.”
—James Raven Times Literary Supplement
“This is a landmark contribution to early American bibliography, a must for all libraries with an interest in literature, Americana, or bibliography.”
—Karen Attar The Library
“A great work of enumerative bibliography. . . . A notable monument of fact about what made the poets of America take to verse to express it.”
—Nicolas Barker The Book Collector
