Poetry 1945-1950 by Alan Ross - 1951

Longmans, Green and Co. for The British Council, 1951. Soft cover. Fair. 72 pages, with Select Bibliography, illustrated with b&w photographic portraits of 22 poets. Overview and criticism of British poetry written in the first five years after World War II, including works by Edith Sitwell, Edwin Muir, Louis MacNeice, C. Day Lewis, John Betjeman, Stephen Spender and others. Trade paperback, wraps soiled, chipped, tattered along spine with somewhat chaotic clear tape repairs that cannot be removed without further destruction, light foxing to edges and inside covers, pages age-toned. The interior is better, with all pages present and a note written on just one page in the bibliography.