Front matter
Reading edition
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THE AUGUSTAN BOOKS OF
MODERN POETRY
ALICE MEYNELL
LONDON: ERNEST BENN LTD.
BOUVERIE HOUSE, FLEET STREET
The Augustan Books of English Poetry
(Second Series)
Edited by Humbert Wolfe
1 JOHN DONNE
2 GEORGE HERBERT
3 FRANCIS THOMPSON
4 W. B. YEATS
5 HAROLD MONRO
6 ROSE MACAULAY
7 ARTHUR WALEY, POEMS FROM THE CHINESE
8 POEMS FROM THE GREEK
9 POEMS FROM THE LATIN
10 EDWARD G. BROWNE, POEMS FROM THE PERSIAN
11 POEMS FROM THE IRISH
12 JOHN SKELTON, MODERNIZED BY ROBERT GRAVES
13 POEMS FROM BOOKS, 1927 (THOMAS MOULT)
14 THE LESS FAMILIAR NURSERY RHYMES (ROBERT GRAVES)
16 CHARLES AND MARY LAMB (MARK PERUGINI)
17 EPITAPHS (HON. ELEANOR BROUGHAM)
18 CHRISTMAS CAROLS (D. L. KELLEHER)
19 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (H. W. GARROD)
20 GERALD GOULD
21 SYLVIA LYND
22 D. H. LAWRENCE
23 S. T. COLERIDGE (HAROLD MONRO)
24 POEMS FROM THE FRENCH (translated by H. W. GARROD)
25 EDMUND SPENSER (JAMES STEPHENS)
26 BYRON (JAMES STEPHENS)
27 DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (CHARLES DAVIES)
28 GORDON BOTTOMLEY
29 SACHEVERELL SITWELL
30 TRANSLATIONS FROM DANTE (LAURENCE BINYON)
Compilers’ names are indicated in brackets after the title.
iiiALICE MEYNELL, 1850–1922.
For permission to publish these selections, the publishers desire to express their thanks to Mr. Wilfrid Meynell and to Messrs. Burns Oates and Washbourne.
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