Modern Verse [antikvár]

PREFATORY NOTE This volume of modern verse is intended as a continual tion of the other five volumes of English Verse that have already appeared in the series. The early poems in this volume unavoidably overlap with the later poems in the f, Longfellow to Rupert Brooke volume as it is intended that ' besides serving to bring the series up to the present this f volume should give a representative selection of English i verse written since the last few years of the nineteenth cen^ ( tury. In this enlarged second edition some sixty poems have been added, mainly by upwards of thirty younger poets whose work became known between 1940 and 1950. Acknowledgements for permission to use copyright poems [ are due to Mrs. Lascelles Abercrombie for 'The Stream's Song' [' and 'A Hymn to Love' by Lascelles Abercrombie; to the Ox- p ford University Press and J. Redwood Anderson for 'Epilogue: I from the Promontory' (from Pillars to Remembrance) and 'The Tarn'; to Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson and the late Herbert Asquith for 'The Volimteer'; to Faber & Faber and W. H. ! Auden for 'Song for the New Year' and 'It's no use raising a Shout' (from Collected Poems) and 'The FHght into Egypt' (from For the Time Being); to The Listener and W. H. Auden for 'The Witnesses'; to Faber & Faber and George Barker for 'The Leaping Laughers' and 'Luctus in Morte Infantis' (from Poems) and for 'Zennor Idyl' (from News of the World); to Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. and the late Hilaire Belloc for 'The South Country', 'Ha'nacker Mill', and 'On a Sleeping Friend'; to the late Laurence Binyon for 'For the Fallen' and 'Little Dancers'; to Sidgwick & Jackson and Edmund Blunden f for 'Almswomen' and 'The Pike'; to Macmillan & Co. Ltd. -j and the author's representatives for 'Esther', and 'Chanclebury ''I