Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-01

MODERN BRITISH POETRY. 4
collection by Louis Untcrmeyer., liar
volume to Modern American poe
try COVERING the same period. from
poems, but those, lustrating the
greatest variety. have been chosen
from eighty representative British
poets, as prominent and dissimilar as
Francis Thompson, Kipling. Arthur
Synons, y. T.. llousman, Yeats, Noycs,
De In Mere, Gibson, Chesterton. Nase-
field, Sassoon, Rupert Brooke and
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