“If there be any critic in the country who ought not to make a schoolbook, that critic is Louis Untermeyer. He is much too brilliantly individual and his likes and dislikes are too pronounced. It is a book of verse that young people probably will like, if they like verse at all. Many of the selections included are humorous.... A good professor would make a better anthology for use in schools.” Marguerite Wilkinson
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“The criticism may be raised that Mr Untermeyer has been too generous to the ultra-moderns. But the selections of Carl Sandburg, John Gould Fletcher and Alfred Kreymborg are chosen with discrimination, and serve to accomplish the editor’s purpose.”
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“This book is a delightful one to read; it has a distinct individuality, and if Mr Untermeyer, in avoiding the beaten track, does not always publish the finest work of his poets, he recovers many a line that has been undeservedly forgotten.” E: B. Reed
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UNTERMEYER, LOUIS, ed. Modern British poetry. *$2 Harcourt 821.08
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A companion volume to Mr Untermeyer’s ‘Modern American poetry.’ Over seventy-five poets are represented, ranging from Thomas Hardy, born in 1840, to Robert Graves, born in 1895. Among the others are Alice Meynell, William Watson, Francis Thompson, A. E. Housman, Ernest Dowson, Hilaire Belloc, Walter de la Mare, G. K. Chesterton, W. W. Gibson, John Masefield, Ralph Hodgson, Harold Monro, John Drinkwater, Siegfried Sassoon, Francis Ledwidge, Irene Rutherford McLeod, Richard Aldington, Robert Nichols and Charles H. Sorley. In an introduction the editor discusses the new influences and tendencies.