Georgian Poetry 1916-1917

by Edward Howard Marsh (editor)

Excerpt from Georgian Poetry, 1916-1917

My thanks for permission to print the poems are due to Messrs. Chatto 8c Windus, Constable, Fifield, Heinemann, Macmillan, Elkin Mathews, Martin Secker, and Sidgwick 8: Jackson, and to the Editors of the Nation, the New Statesman, and to-day.

Genres: Classics

206 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 18, 2012

About the author

Sir Edward Howard Marsh (18 November 1872 – 13 January 1953), born to Professor Howard Marsh of Downing College, Cambridge, was a British polymath, translator, arts patron and civil servant. He was the sponsor of the Georgian school of poets and a friend to many individuals, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. In his career as a civil servant he worked as Private Secretary to a succession of Great Britain's most powerful ministers, particularly Winston Churchill.

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[Christina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stumbled on this in a used bookshop. Surprisingly excellent!