Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935

The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 is a poetry anthology edited by W. B. Yeats and published in 1936 by Oxford University Press. A long introductory essay starts from the proposition that the poets included should be all the "good" ones (implicitly the field is Anglo-Irish poetry, though notably a few Indian poets are there) active since the death of Tennyson. In fact, the selection of poets is idiosyncratic:[citation needed] late Victorians are strongly represented, while the war poets of the First World War are not. The modernist tendency does not predominate, though it is not ignored; Georgian poetry is covered quite thoroughly; and Oliver St. John Gogarty is given space and praised in the introduction as a great poet.

Yeats was influenced by his personal feelings,[citation needed] including poems by friends (e.g. Gogarty, Shri Purohit Swami), as well as Margot Ruddock, with whom he was having a relationship. He notes[where?] that Rudyard Kipling and Ezra Pound are under-represented because paying their royalties would have cost too much, though he did not say which of their poems he would have included.

Poets in the Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935

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