Modern British Poetry

About this eBook

Editor

Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977

Credits

Produced by David Starner, Suzanne Lybarger and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English poetry -- 20th century

Category

Text

eBook-No.

26785

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26785

Release Date

October 6, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber's Note: — MODERN BRITISH POETRY — EDITED BY
2. 2.LOUIS UNTERMEYER — Author of " Challenge ," " Including Horace ," " Modern American Poetry ," etc. — NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE & COMPANY
3. 3.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.INTRODUCTORY — The New Influences and Tendencies — the end of victorianism — the rise and decline of the æsthetic philosophy — william ernest henley — the celtic revival and j. m. synge — rudyard kipling — john masefield — "the georgians" and the younger men — MODERN BRITISH POETRY
6. 6.Thomas Hardy — IN TIME OF "THE BREAKING OF NATIONS" — GOING AND STAYING — THE MAN HE KILLED ( From "The Dynasts" )
7. 7.Robert Bridges — WINTER NIGHTFALL — NIGHTINGALES
8. 8.Arthur O'Shaughnessy — ODE
9. 9.William Ernest Henley — INVICTUS — THE BLACKBIRD — A BOWL OF ROSES — BEFORE — MARGARITÆ SORORI
10. 10.Robert Louis Stevenson — SUMMER SUN — WINTER-TIME — ROMANCE — REQUIEM
11. 11.Alice Meynell — A THRUSH BEFORE DAWN
12. 12.Fiona Macleod ( William Sharp ) — THE VALLEY OF SILENCE — THE VISION
13. 13.Oscar Wilde — REQUIESCAT — IMPRESSION DU MATIN
14. 14.John Davidson — A BALLAD OF HELL — IMAGINATION ( From "New Year's Eve" )
15. 15.William Watson — ODE IN MAY [1] — ESTRANGEMENT [2] — SONG — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.Francis Thompson — DAISY — TO OLIVIA — AN ARAB LOVE-SONG — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.A. E. Housman — REVEILLÉ — WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY — WITH RUE MY HEART IS LADEN — TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG — "LOVELIEST OF TREES"
18. 18.Douglas Hyde — I SHALL NOT DIE FOR THEE
19. 19.Amy Levy — EPITAPH ( On a commonplace person who died in bed ) — IN THE MILE END ROAD
20. 20.Katharine Tynan Hinkson — SHEEP AND LAMBS — ALL-SOULS
21. 21.Owen Seaman — TO AN OLD FOGEY ( Who Contends that Christmas is Played Out ) — THOMAS OF THE LIGHT HEART — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.Henry Newbolt — DRAKE'S DRUM
23. 23.Arthur Symons — IN THE WOOD OF FINVARA — MODERN BEAUTY
24. 24.William Butler Yeats — THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE — THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER — THE CAP AND BELLS — AN OLD SONG RESUNG
25. 25.Rudyard Kipling — GUNGA DIN — THE RETURN [11] — THE CONUNDRUM OF THE WORKSHOPS — AN ASTROLOGER'S SONG [12] — FOOTNOTES:
26. 26.Richard Le Gallienne — A BALLAD OF LONDON — REGRET
27. 27.Lionel Johnson — MYSTIC AND CAVALIER — TO A TRAVELLER
28. 28.Ernest Dowson — TO ONE IN BEDLAM — YOU WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD ME
29. 29." A. E. " ( George William Russell ) — THE GREAT BREATH — THE UNKNOWN GOD
30. 30.Stephen Phillips — FRAGMENT FROM "HEROD" — BEAUTIFUL LIE THE DEAD — A DREAM
31. 31.Laurence Binyon — A SONG — THE HOUSE THAT WAS
32. 32.Alfred Douglas — THE GREEN RIVER
33. 33.T. Sturge Moore — THE DYING SWAN — SILENCE SINGS
34. 34.William H. Davies — DAYS TOO SHORT — THE MOON — THE VILLAIN — THE EXAMPLE
35. 35.Hilaire Belloc — THE SOUTH COUNTRY
36. 36.Anthony C. Deane — THE BALLAD OF THE BILLYCOCK — A RUSTIC SONG
37. 37.J. M. Synge — BEG-INNISH — A TRANSLATION FROM PETRARCH — TO THE OAKS OF GLENCREE — FOOTNOTES:
38. 38.Nora Hopper Chesson — A CONNAUGHT LAMENT
39. 39.Eva Gore-Booth — THE WAVES OF BREFFNY — WALLS
40. 40.Moira O'Neill — A BROKEN SONG — BEAUTY'S A FLOWER
41. 41.John McCrae — IN FLANDERS FIELDS
42. 42.Ford Madox Hueffer — CLAIR DE LUNE — I — II — "THERE SHALL BE MORE JOY ..."
43. 43.Walter De la Mare — THE LISTENERS — AN EPITAPH — TIRED TIM — OLD SUSAN — NOD
44. 44.G. K. Chesterton — LEPANTO [14] — A PRAYER IN DARKNESS — THE DONKEY — FOOTNOTES:
45. 45.Wilfrid Wilson Gibson — PRELUDE — THE STONE [15] — SIGHT [16] — FOOTNOTES:
46. 46.John Masefield — A CONSECRATION — SEA-FEVER — ROUNDING THE HORN ( From "Dauber" ) [17] — THE CHOICE — SONNET [18] — FOOTNOTES:
47. 47.Lord Dunsany — SONGS FROM AN EVIL WOOD — I — II — III
48. 48.Edward Thomas — IF I SHOULD EVER BY CHANCE — TALL NETTLES — FIFTY FAGGOTS — COCK-CROW
49. 49.Seumas O'Sullivan — PRAISE
50. 50.Ralph Hodgson — EVE — TIME, YOU OLD GIPSY MAN — THE BIRDCATCHER — THE MYSTERY
51. 51.Harold Monro — THE NIGHTINGALE NEAR THE HOUSE — EVERY THING — STRANGE MEETINGS
52. 52.T. M. Kettle — TO MY DAUGHTER BETTY, THE GIFT OF GOD
53. 53.Alfred Noyes — SHERWOOD — THE BARREL-ORGAN — EPILOGUE ( From "The Flower of Old Japan" )
54. 54.Padraic Colum — THE PLOUGHER — AN OLD WOMAN OF THE ROADS
55. 55.Joseph Campbell ( Seosamh MacCathmhaoil ) — I AM THE MOUNTAINY SINGER — THE OLD WOMAN
56. 56.James Stephens — THE SHELL — WHAT TOMAS AN BUILE SAID IN A PUB — TO THE FOUR COURTS, PLEASE
57. 57.John Drinkwater — RECIPROCITY — A TOWN WINDOW
58. 58.James Joyce — I HEAR AN ARMY
59. 59.J. C. Squire — A HOUSE
60. 60.Lascelles Abercrombie — FROM "VASHTI" — SONG ( From "Judith" )
61. 61.James Elroy Flecker — THE OLD SHIPS
62. 62.D. H. Lawrence — PEOPLE — PIANO
63. 63.John Freeman — STONE TREES
64. 64.Shane Leslie — FLEET STREET — THE PATER OF THE CANNON
65. 65.Frances Cornford — PREËXISTENCE
66. 66.Anna Wickham — THE SINGER — REALITY — SONG
67. 67.Siegfried Sassoon — TO VICTORY — DREAMERS — THE REAR-GUARD — THRUSHES — AFTERMATH
68. 68.Rupert Brooke — THE GREAT LOVER [19] — DUST [20] — THE SOLDIER [21] — FOOTNOTES:
69. 69.Winifred M. Letts — GRANDEUR — THE SPIRES OF OXFORD
70. 70.Francis Brett Young — LOCHANILAUN
71. 71.F. S. Flint — LONDON
72. 72.Edith Sitwell — THE WEB OF EROS — INTERLUDE
73. 73.F. W. Harvey — THE BUGLER
74. 74.T. P. Cameron Wilson — SPORTSMEN IN PARADISE
75. 75.W. J. Turner — ROMANCE
76. 76.Patrick MacGill — BY-THE-WAY — DEATH AND THE FAIRIES
77. 77.Francis Ledwidge — AN EVENING IN ENGLAND — EVENING CLOUDS — FOOTNOTES:
78. 78.Irene Rutherford McLeod — "IS LOVE, THEN, SO SIMPLE" — LONE DOG
79. 79.Richard Aldington — PRELUDE — IMAGES — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM
80. 80.Edward Shanks — COMPLAINT
81. 81.Osbert Sitwell — THE BLIND PEDLAR — PROGRESS
82. 82.Robert Nichols — NEARER
83. 83.Charles Hamilton Sorley — TWO SONNETS — I — II — TO GERMANY
84. 84.Robert Graves — IT'S A QUEER TIME — A PINCH OF SALT — I WONDER WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE DROWNED? — THE LAST POST
85. 85.INDEX — Transcriber's Notes:

Community reviews

Sign in to write a review.

No reviews yet.