HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS (VI ’23) NEW YORK
Revised and Enlarged, Fifth Edition
The Home Book of Verse
COMPILED BY
BURTON E. STEVENSON
(American and English 1580–1920)
The third edition was revised from end to end—590 poems added, pages renumbered, author, title, and first line indices, and the biographical matter corrected, etc., etc. In the two editions since there has been little change beyond the noting of some dates of deaths, etc.
The hundreds of letters from readers and poets suggesting additions or corrections as well as the columns of reviews of the first edition have been considered. Poets who were chary of lending their support to an unknown venture have now generously permitted the use of their work.
This edition includes the “new” poets such as Masefield, Chesterton, Frost, Rupert Brooke, de la Mare, Ralph Hodgson, etc.