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THE ADVANCE OF ENGLISH POETRY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

BY
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Lampson Professor of English Literature at Yale

Member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters

O! 't is an easy thing
To write and sing;
But to write true, unfeigned verse
Is very hard!

—HENRY VAUGHAN, 1655

TO MY FRIEND FOR FORTY YEARS

FRANK W. HUBBARD