Modern Verse 1900 - 1940 - used book

MODERN VERSE 1900-I940 -- PREFATORY NOTE -- THIS volume of modern verse is intended as a continuation of the other five volumes of English Verse that have already appeared in this series. The early poems in this volume unavoidably overlap with the later poems in the volume entitled L o n e l l oto RuFert Brooke as it is hoped that besides serving to bring the series up to the present day this volume will give a representative selection of English verse written since the last few years of the nineteenth century. It is not intended as an anthology of poetry hitherto little known, but, so far as is possible within the limits of a small book, to reprint verse that has been popular and generally read during the last forty to forty-five years. Acknowledgements for permission to use copyright poems are due to Mrs. Lascelles Abercrombie for The Streams Song and A Hymn to Love by Lascelles Abercrombie to the Oxfosd University Press and J. Redwood Anderson for The Tarn to Messrs. Sidgwick Jackson and Herbert Asquith for The Volunteer to Messrs. Faber Faber and W. H. Auden for Song for the New Year and Its no use raising a Shout from Co1lectedPoem. s to The Listener and W. H. Auden for The Witnesses to Messrs. Faber Faber and George Barker for The Leaping Laughers and Luctus in Morte Infantis from Poems to Messrs. Gerald Duckworth and Hilaire Belloc for The South Countryy, Hanacker Mill, and On a Sleeping Friend to Laurence Binyon for For the Fallen and Little Dancers to Messrs. Sidgwick Jackson and Edmund Blunden for Almswomen and The Pike to Messrs. Macmillan and the authors representatives for Esther, When I hear laughter, and Chanclebury Ring from the Poetical Works oj Wilfred Scawen Blunt toMessrs. Constable Ltd. and Gordon Bottomley for To Iron-Founders and Others to the Clarendon Press for The very names of things beloved, Ye blessed saints, I heard a linnet courting, I will not let thee go, Awake, my heart, and Cheddar Pinks by Robert Bridges to Messrs. Sidgwick Jackson for The Dead and The Old Vicarage by Rupert Brooke to Messrs. Faber Faber and Roy Campbell for The Serf from Adamastor and Choosing a Mast Ariel Poem to Messrs. J. M. Dent Sons for The Donkey by G. K. Chesterton to Messrs. A. P. Watt Sons, and the executrix of the late G. K. Chesterton for Lepanto and When I came back to Fleet Street by G. K. Chesterton to the executors of the late Sir Henry Newbolt for Unwelcome and Where a Roman Villa stood by Mary Coleridge to Padraic Colum for Old Soldier and A Cradle Song to the Cambridge University Press for Near an Old Prison from Mountains and Molehills by Frances Cornford to Messrs. Jonathan Cape and W. H. Davies for Joy and Pleasure, Leisure, Schools Out, and Days that have been from Collected Poems to Messrs. J. B. Pinker and Walter de la Mare for Arabia, All thats Past, Tartary, The Little Creature, and Babel to Messrs. John Lane for Cynara by Ernest Dowson to Messrs. Sidgwick Jackson for The Blackbird by John Drinkwater to Messrs. Faber Faber and T. S. Eliot for Preludes, Whispers of Immortality, Marina, Gerontion, and Animula from Collected Poems to Messrs. Chatto Windus and William Empson for Dissatisfaction with Metaphysics and To an old Lady to Messrs. Martin Secker Warburg and the executrix of the late J. E. Flecker for the6Prologue to the Golden Journey andCTheO ld Ships by James Elroy Flecker to Mrs. John Freeman PREFATORY NOTE vii for The Eye and Toend her Fear to Messrs...