Modern British Poetry

1920. This anthology is a companion volume to "Modern American Poetry," covering the same period, from about 1870 to 1920. Not only have the best poems but those illustrating the greatest variety have been chosen from eighty representative British poets, as prominent and dissimilar as Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Francis Thompson, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Symons, A.E. Housman, Yeats, Noyes, de la Mare, Gibson, Chesterton, Masefield, Sassoon, Rupert Brooke and Drinkwater, D.H. Lawrence and many, many more.