The Complete Poems of American Poet Donald E. Stanford, 1913-1918 (Studies in American Literature, 51)

This is a complete collection of Donald E. Stanford's poems, including the three chapbooks he published, his privately printed poems and all the extant manuscript poems he did not publish. The textual notes list all the authorial versions, naming the basic text and giving all the variant readings. Tables of Stanford's editions and collections and their tables of contents are presented, and the appendices provide Stanford's own statements about his life and poetry. David Middleton's preface places Stanford's poetry in historical perspective and highlights the salient virtues of his poetic theory and practice.