An Anthology of Recent Poetry

by Lettice D'Oyly Walters

Excerpt from An Anthology of Recent Poetry

The best poetry is always about the Earth itself and all the strange and lovely things that compose and inhabit it. When a 'great poet' sets himself the task of some 'big theme,' he needs only to hold, as it were, a magnifying glass to the earth. We, who are born and live here, like very much to imagine other worlds, and we have even mentally constructed such another in which to exist after dying on this one; but we were careful to make it a glorified ver sion of our own earth with everything we most love here intensified and improved to the utmost stretch of human imagination.

149 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1970

Reviews

[Ev · Rating 3 out of 5]

7/10

[Lucy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chesterton's 'The Donkey', Belloc's 'The South Country', Masefields 'Sea Fever', Yeats' 'Innisfree' - and that's just in the first few pages. An inspired collection from 1920.