📚 American Poets

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with american poets on their catalogue record, first published between 1800 and 2006, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject american poets in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,709 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1800	185
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II	Emily Dickinson	1890	151
Oliver Goldsmith	Washington Irving	1840	133
Poems	William Cullen Bryant	1800	81
Canto a Mi Mismo	Walt Whitman	1904	59
Tales of a wayside inn	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1863	51
Poems	Robert Frost	1923	47
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910	Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards	1915	37
T.S. Eliot	M. C. Bradbrook	1950	35
Just Kids	Patti Smith	2006	33
Walt Whitman	John Addington Symonds	1893	26
Calamus	Walt Whitman	1897	24
Personae	Ezra Pound	1909	22
Poems of Henry Timrod	Henry Timrod	1872	21
Days with Walt Whitman, with some notes on his life and work	Edward Carpenter	1906	20
Mathematics for the practical man	Howe, George	1911	20
Letters of Emily Dickinson	Emily Dickinson	1894	19
The big sea	Langston Hughes	1940	19
Sidney Lanier	Edwin Mims	1905	18
I wonder as I wander	Langston Hughes	1956	15
The Journals of Sylvia Plath	Ted Hughes	1982	14
T.S. Eliot	Peter Ackroyd	1984	13
Poems	Maya Angelou	1986	13
Sylvia Plath	Linda Wagner-Martin	1987	13
Longfellow & his poetry	William Henry Oliphant Smeaton	1913	12
Letters of Sidney Lanier	Sidney Lanier	1899	11
The life and mind of Emily Dickinson	Genevieve Taggard	1930	11
Collected poems of Elinor Wylie	Elinor Wylie	1932	11
This was a poet	George Frisbie Whicher	1938	11
The Liars' Club	Mary Karr	1995	11

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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