English poetry, 1900-1950: An assessment (University paperbacks)

BRAND NEW softcover, clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library slight shelfwear / storage-wear; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201601608 As the author states in his introductory note, "The object of t his book is to show where the best English verse of the first half of the century is t o be found, to indicate what its qualities are and -- since these things are not separable -- what sort of men wrote it." C.H, Sisson discusses the works of thirty or so poets. There is a background chapter on the 1890s (Lionel Jackson, Ernest Dowson, John Davidson). The poets belonging to the first quarter of the century include Hardy, Kipling, Housman, Walter de la Mare, T.E. Hulme, James Joyce, Edward Thomas, Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg. Whole chapters are devoted to Pound, Eliot and Yeats. The thirties are represented by Spender, Empson, Clare Parsons, Wyndham Lewis, Roy Campbell and Hugh MacDiarmid; the forties by George Barker, Dylan Thomas, Patrick Kavanagh and David Gascoyne. "What makes this work outstanding is that in it history of literature is combined with a definite point of view -- just what is needed most at a time when all critical standards have become muzzy, fuzzy or non-existent.": We recommend selecting Priority Mail wherever available. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil or Italy.)