The book comproses an introduction to poetry of the New England Renaissance, biographical notes on the authors and then the poems of particular authors.

LIST OF AUTHORS:
Joel Barrow
William Cullen Bryant
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jones Very
Christopher Pearse Cranch
Henry David Thoreau
William Ellery Channing
James Russell Lowell
Henry Howard Brownell
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Emily Dickinson