Charles Scribner's Sons
Announce the publication of
A Little Treasury of
Modern Poetry
Edited with an Introduction
by
OSCAR WILLIAMS
This authoritative collection of the best poems written during
the past fifty years at least enables the general reader to have,
in one convenient and readable volume, the poetry that has
made the literary history of our time. It contains over four
hundred poems, a richly complete representation of the major
English and American poetry of the Twentieth Century, from
the publication of A. E. Housman's
A Shropshire Lad
to the
distinguished poetry published at the close of World War II.
The great figures of modern poetry are well represented,
with fifteen poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins, twelve by W.
H. Auden, fourteen by Robert Frost, twelve by W. B. Yeats,
and ten by T. S. Eliot, including "The Waste Land," which
Mr. Eliot has permitted to be used in a general anthology for
the first time in twenty-five years. The finest short lyrics and
well-known favorites by many other important poets, includ–
ing the younger living poets, will also be found here. T his
variety and inclusiveness of representation make the book
indeed a treasury.
With
64
Portrait Photographs, many hitherto unpublished.
$2.75
at all bookstores
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK
