Aiken, who compiled this anthology at age 30, was a contemporary of Eliot and Pound.  In this collection:  Anne Bradstreet; Thomas Godfrey; Philip Freneau; Richard Henry Dana; Wiliam Cullen Bryant; Edgar Allan Poe; Edeard Coate Pinkney; T.H. Chivers; John Greenleaf Whittier; Oliver Wendell Holmes; James Russell Lowell; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry David Thoreau; Julia Ward Howe; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Walt Whitman; Louise Chandler Moulton; Richard Realf; Emily Dickinson; Helen Hunt Jackson; Edward Rowland Sill; John Townsend Trowbridge; George Henry Boker; Maurice Thompson; John Vance Cheney; Stephen Collins Foster; Thomas Bailey Aldrich; Herman Melville; John Burroughs; joaquin Miller; Sidney Lanier; Henry Augustin Beers; John Banister Tabb; Edwin Markham; William Vaughn Moody; Stephen Crane; George Cabot Lodge; George Santayana; Trumbull Stickney; Shaemus O'Sheel; Adelaide Crapsey; Edwin Arlington Robinson; Anna Hempstead Branch;; Amy Lowell; Edgar Lee Masters;  Vachel Lindsay; Robert Frost; Carl Sandburg; William Ellery Leonard; Alfred Kreymborg; John Gould Fletcher; H.D.; Louis Untermeyer; T.S. Eliot; Wallace Stevens; Edna St. Vincent Millay; John Hall Wheelock; Cale Young Rice; Elinor Wylie; Ezra Pound; E.E. Cummings; Archibald MacLeish; John Crowe Ransom; Marianne Moore.