For permission to reprint most of the material in this volume, the editor wishes to thank not only the poets whose coÖperation has been of such assistance, but also the publishers, all of whom are holders of the copyright. The indebtedness is alphabetically acknowledged to:

Richard G. Badger—for the poems from Sun and Saddle Leather and Grass-Grown Trails by Badger Clark.

Bobbs-Merrill Company—for two poems from The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley.

Brentano’s—for two poems from Chanteys and Ballads by Harry Kemp.

Nicholas L. Brown—for the poem from Blood of Things by Alfred Kreymborg.

The Century Company—for the selections from Merchants from Cathay by William Rose BenÉt and War and Laughter by James Oppenheim.

The Century Magazine—for “Lake Song” by Jean Starr Untermeyer.

Dodd, Mead & Company—for the two poems from Lyrics of Lowly Life and one poem from Lyrics of Love and Laughter by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

George H. Doran Company—for the selections from Moons of Grandeur by William Rose BenÉt, Banners by Babette Deutsch, Trees and Other Poems by Joyce Kilmer, and Hide and Seek by Christopher Morley.

Doubleday, Page & Company—for the selections from In Other Words and Tobogganning on Parnassus by Franklin P. Adams, The Man with the Hoe and Lincoln and Other Poems by Edwin Markham.

E. P. Dutton & Company—for the selections from The Vale of Tempe by Madison Cawein and Lanterns in Gethsemane by Willard Wattles.

Four Seas Company—for the quotations from The Charnel Rose, The Jig of Forslin and The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken.

Hillacre Bookhouse—for the quotations from Arrows in the Gale by Arturo Giovannitti.

Harcourt, Brace & Company—for the selections from A Miscellany of American Poetry—1920; Canzoni and Carmina by T. A. Daly, Piping and Panning by Edwin Meade Robinson, Smoke and Steel by Carl Sandburg, Challenge and The New Adam by Louis Untermeyer, and The Roamer and Other Poems by George Edward Woodberry.

Harper & Brothers—for the selections from Fables for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Carryl and Dreams and Dust by Don Marquis.

Harr Wagner Publishing Co.—for the selections from The Complete Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller.

Henry Holt & Company—for the selections from Wilderness Songs by Grace Hazard Conkling, Portraits and Protests by Sarah N. Cleghorn, A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval by Robert Frost; Outcasts in Beulah Land by Roy Helton, Chicago Poems and Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg, These Times by Louis Untermeyer, and Factories by Margaret Widdemer.

The selections from The Complete Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Complete Works of Bret Harte, The Shoes That Danced by Anna Hempstead Branch, Davy and the Goblin by Charles E. Carryl, Grimm Tales Made Gay by Guy Wetmore Carryl, Riders of the Stars and Songs of the Trail by Harry Herbert Knibbs, Poems and Poetic Dramas by William Vaughn Moody, Lyrics of Joy by Frank Dempster Sherman, Poems by Edward Rowland Sill, Sea Garden by “H. D.,” and the quotations from Some Imagist Poets—1916 and Some Imagist Poets—1917 are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers.

B. W. Huebsch—for the selections from A Family Album by Alter Brody, The Vaunt of Man by William Ellery Leonard, The Ghetto and Sun-Up by Lola Ridge, Optimos by Horace Traubel, Growing Pains and Dreams out of Darkness by Jean Starr Untermeyer, and The Hesitant Heart by Winifred Welles.

Alfred A. Knopf—for the selections from A Canticle of Pan by Witter Bynner, Colors of Life by Max Eastman, Poems by T. S. Eliot, Asphalt and Other Poems by Orrick Johns, Mushrooms by Alfred Kreymborg, Songs for the New Age by James Oppenheim, Lustra by Ezra Pound, Profiles from China and Body and Raiment by Eunice Tietjens.

The Laurentian Publishers—for the poem from Motley Measures by Bert Leston Taylor.

The Liberator—for a poem by Jean Starr Untermeyer.

Little, Brown & Company—for the selections from Poems and Poems—Third Series by Emily Dickinson.

The Macmillan Company—for the selections from Poems by Gladys Cromwell, Youth Riding by Mary Carolyn Davies, The Congo and Other Poems and The Chinese Nightingale by Vachel Lindsay, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed and Pictures of the Floating World by Amy Lowell, Spoon River Anthology and Songs and Satires by Edgar Lee Masters, The Quest by John G. Neihardt, The Man Against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Love Songs and Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale, Bluestone by Marguerite Wilkinson.

Robert M. McBride & Company—for the two poems taken from From the Hidden Way by James Branch Cabell.

The Manas Press—for the selections from Verse by Adelaide Crapsey.

Thomas B. Mosher—for the selections from A Quiet Road and A Wayside Lute by Lizette Woodworth Reese and The Flower from the Ashes by Edith M. Thomas.

The New Republic—for a poem by Ridgely Torrence.

Pagan Publishing Company—for two poems from Minna and Myself by Maxwell Bodenheim.

Poetry: A Magazine of Verse—for the two poems by Edwin Ford Piper and a sonnet by David Morton.

A. M. Robertson—for the sonnet from The House of Orchids by George Sterling.

Charles Scribner’s Sons—for the selections from Poems by Henry Cuyler Bunner, Poems by Eugene Field, The Bashful Earthquake by Oliver Herford, Poems of Sidney Lanier, The Children of the Night and The Town Down the River by Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Poems by Alan Seeger.

Frank Shay—for the quotation from Figs from Thistles by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Sherman, French & Company—for the two poems from The Human Fantasy and The BelovÈd Adventure by John Hall Wheelock.

Small, Maynard & Company—for the selections from Ballads of Lost Haven by Bliss Carman, Along the Trail by Richard Hovey, Songs from Vagabondia and More Songs from Vagabondia by Richard Hovey and Bliss Carman, and the poem by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman.

The Sonnet—for Frustrate by Leslie Nelson Jennings.

F. A. Stokes Company—for the selections from War Is Kind by Stephen Crane, Grenstone Poems by Witter Bynner, and Poems by a Little Girl by Hilda Conkling.

Sturgis & Walton Company—for the poem from Monday Morning by James Oppenheim.

Vanity Fair—for “Wild Swans” and a sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

The Yale University Press—for selections from Young Adventure by Stephen Vincent BenÉt and The Burglar of the Zodiac by William Rose BenÉt.

The Yale Review—for “The Onset” by Robert Frost.

For several suggestions toward the preparation of this revised edition I am especially indebted to Professors Percy H. Boynton, John Livingston Lowes, Fred Lewis Pattee and Floyd Dell. This acknowledgment is a slight expression of my gratitude as well as a record of my obligation.