The Best of the Kenyon Review

The first collection from the archives of this beloved literary journal

Featuring remarkable works from dozens of acclaimed writers, this is an anthology of the best poems, short stories and essays that first appeared in The Kenyon Review, one of the world's most influential literary journals. This who's who of literature contains pieces by current National Book Award winner Ruth Stone and:
William Carlos Williams, Randall Jarrell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Federico Garcia Lorca, E.L. Doctorow, John Berryman, Dylan Thomas, Allen Tate, Marianne Moore, F.O. Matthiessen, Muriel Rukeyser, Bertolt Brecht, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell, W.H. Auden, Sean O'Faolain, James Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Konstantinos Kavaphes, Peter Taylor, Delmore Schwartz, Thomas Pynchon, Sylvia Plath, James Dickey, Nadine Gordimer, Doris Lessing, Julio Cortázar, Robert Hass, Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Hyde, Galway Kinnell, Derek Walcott, Woody Allen, Rita Dove, Italo Calvino, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Early, Reginald McKnight, Philip Levine, Yusef Komunyakaa, Richard Howard, Eavan Boland, Ha Jin, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Glave, Charles Wright