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Title: Modern British Poetry

Author: Various

Editor: Louis Untermeyer

Release Date: October 6, 2008 [EBook #26785]

Language: English

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MODERN BRITISH
POETRY

EDITED BY
LOUIS UNTERMEYER

Author of "_Challenge_," "_Including Horace_,"
"_Modern American Poetry_," etc.

NEW YORK

HARCOURT, BRACE & COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE, INC.

PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY
THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY
RAHWAY, N. J.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For permission to reprint the material in this volume, the editor
wishes, first of all, to acknowledge his debt to those poets whose
co-operation has been of such assistance not only in finally
determining upon the choice of their poems, but in collecting dates,
biographical data, etc. Secondly, he wishes to thank the publishers,
most of whom are holders of the copyrights. The latter indebtedness is
specifically acknowledged to:

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY and A. P. WATT & SON--

For "The Return" from _The Five Nations_ and for "An
Astrologer's Song" from _Rewards and Fairies_ by Rudyard
Kipling. Thanks also are due to Mr. Kipling himself for
personal permission to reprint these poems.

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY and MARTIN SECKER--

For the poem from _Collected Poems_ by James Elroy Flecker.

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY--

For the poems from _The Old Huntsman_, _Counter-Attack_ and
_Picture Show_ by Siegfried Sas