The Oxford Book of Modern Verse chosen by W.B. Yeats

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. 1937. Clarendon Press (Oxford). Inscribed by previous owner in pen, front end page.

The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 was a poetry anthology edited by W. B. Yeats, and published in 1936 by Oxford University Press. A long and interesting introductory essay starts from the proposition that the poets included should be all the 'good' ones active since Tennyson's death