Second Selections From Modern Poets Hardcover - 1932

HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 7th.* Date of Publication: 1932* Publisher: Martin Secker.* Binding and cover condition: Green cloth, black title to spine & gilt logo to spine and face. Minor bumps & rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear. VG* Jacket condition: No jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Lancing College prize label to front paste down. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to top and fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 467 pp. text. xi pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Description: This second selection from the younger poets was constrained by the ?literary? deaths of the first Great War and contains items by such authors as Edmund Blunden, John Drinkwater, Louis Golding, Robert Graves,D.H.Lawrence, Rose Macaulay, John Masefield, Wilfred Owen & Vita Sackville West amongst many others. From 1919 to 1934, Squire was the editor of the monthly periodical, the London Mercury. It showcased the work of the Georgian poets and was an important outlet for new writers. Squire's natural persona was of a beer-drinking, cricketing, West Countryman; his literary cricket XI, the Invalids, were immortalised in A. G. Macdonell's England, Their England, with Squire as Mr. William Hodge, editor of the London Weekly. In July 1927 he became an early radio commentator on Wimbledon.* A NEAR FINE copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS. No dust jacket.*