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The Poets Laureate Anthology

by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt, Library of Congress and Billy Collins

The Poets Laureate Anthology

Hardcover, 762 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, List Price: $39.95 | purchase

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Poems by each of the forty-three poets who have been named our nation's Poet Laureate since the post (originally called Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress) was established in 1937.

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