This new annotated edition inlcudes Live Oak, with Moss and prose selections from Democratic Vistas and Specimen Days . The text also presents a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations and newspaper articles.

A volume comprised of over 350 poems that brings together the full contents of all 11 of Frost's books of verse, from A Boy's Will to In the Clearing . Edited by a Frost scholar and friend of the poet, it also records extensive bibliographic information and traces textual changes.

Dealing with literary criticism, the author aims to show how, from antiquity to the twentieth century, literature progressed toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. The exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature.