An anthology of modern British verse. Harold Monro, who writes the introduction, supplies the key to the collection when he says, “The best poetry is always about the earth itself and all the strange and lovely things that compose and inhabit it.” The first object, he says later, is to give pleasure. “Moreover, it is adapted to the tastes of almost any age, from ten to ninety, and may be read aloud by grandchild to grandparent as suitably as by grandparent to grandchild. It is an anthology of poems, not of names.” Among the poems and their authors are April, by William Watson; The lake isle of Innisfree, by W. B. Yeats; The donkey, by G. K. Chesterton; The south country, by Hilaire Belloc; The west wind, by John Masefield; Full moon, by Walter de la Mare; A dead harvest, by Alice Meynell; The great lover, by Rupert Brooke; Star-talk, by Robert Graves; Stupidity street, by Ralph Hodgson; The oxen, by Thomas Hardy.
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“It is a good coat-pocket anthology.”
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“This collection includes some charming things by living hands of real distinction, and some others which make us regret young poets lost in the war. The anthologist has given us real pleasures, and we forego the reviewer’s privilege of grumbling about the inclusion of this or the exclusion of that.”
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“The poems are few but well chosen from the standpoint of the seeker after clear language and well-defined images. There is little of that strained impressionism and hazy, finespun introspection which are the bane of modern verse.”
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WALTON, GEORGE LINCOLN. Oscar Montague—paranoiac. il *$1.50 (3c) Lippincott