The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century

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TO MY FRIEND FOR FORTY YEARS FRANK W. HUBBARD

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

PREFACE

CONTENTS I SOME CONTRASTS HENLEY, THOMPSON, HARDY, KIPLING II

THE ADVANCE OF ENGLISH POETRY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

CHAPTER I SOME CONTRASTS HENLEY, THOMPSON, HARDY, KIPLING

CHAPTER II PHILLIPS, WATSON, NOYES, HOUSMAN

CHAPTER III JOHN MASEFIELD

CHAPTER IV GIBSON AND HODGSON

CHAPTER V BROOKE, FLECKER, DE LA MARE, AND OTHERS

CHAPTER VI THE IRISH POETS

CHAPTER VII AMERICAN VETERANS AND FORERUNNERS

CHAPTER VIII VACHEL LINDSAY AND ROBERT FROST

CHAPTER IX AMY LOWELL, ANNA BRANCH, EDGAR LEE MASTERS, LOUIS UNTERMEYER

CHAPTER X SARA TEASDALE, ALAN SEEGER, AND OTHERS

CHAPTER XI A GROUP OF YALE POETS

APPENDIX

INDEX

Title: The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century

Author: William Lyon Phelps

Edition: 10

Language: English

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THE ADVANCE OF ENGLISH POETRY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

BY

WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Lampson Professor of English Literature at Yale

Member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters

  O! 't is an easy thing
         To write and sing;
  But to write true, unfeigned verse
  Is very hard!

—HENRY VAUGHAN, 1655

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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