GREEVER, Garland, & Joseph M. Bachelor (eds).

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The Soul of the City. An Anthology of Urban Verse. First edition, first impression, with the very scarce dust jacket, of the first anthology of its kind, collecting the poetry of the city, drawing on Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, and Whitman, as well as representing many more contemporary writers. "A great city is a great poem - not a poem by a dapper and correct versifier, but a poem by a Shakespeare, rough it maybe and coarse at times, but filled with nobility and warm with the presence of all humanity" (Preface).

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