Modern British Poetry - Louis Untermeyer - Bog

Modern British Poetry is a comprehensive anthology of British poetry compiled and edited by Louis Untermeyer. The book includes poems from some of the most important and influential poets of the 20th century, including T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and Philip Larkin. The collection spans a wide range of styles and themes, from the introspective and confessional to the political and social. Untermeyer's introduction provides a historical and critical context for the poems, and his selection represents a broad cross-section of the modern British poetic tradition. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of British poetry in the 20th century.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.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.