Tue Oxroro Book or Evotssit Vense 1250- i000 Chosen and Edited by Arthur New York (By arrangement with the Oxford University. Presa This American edition of, "The Oxford Book of English Verse" ts an {mportant-looking volume, well bound in tought blue and gold and printed in large clear type, The change in ress is justified, for it has a less austere appearance than its. English brother and austerity 1s not to be asfoelated with these poems, for they fare, as Sir Arthur Quilter-Couch says in his preface, written 30 years Jago, lyrical and epigrammatic. "The anthology contains 883 poems, to be exact, from more than 250 poets, It is a wonderful assemblage, skilfully marshalled by one whose object has been "to serve those who already love poetry and to implant that love in Some young minds not yet initiated." Here are poets familiar and. tnfamiliar, the great masters and the lesser, but all of them worth read? Ing, for, as the Editor says The best ts the best, though a hundred judges have deciared It so, Nor had it been any feat to search Out and insert the second-rate merely because it happened to be reconale. "it is with the greatest pride," say its American publishers, "that they put forth this new and specially rived edition of "Phe Oxford Book of English Verso," and surely, there can be no better book for those who love poetry or for those not' yet initiated pr,
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