ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1937
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Polovna knjiga, korice blago pohabane, unutrašnjost odlično očuvana.

Izdavač: Martin Secker i Warburg - London,
1937. god.
Tvrd povez, 16,5 cm.
479 str.

Odlomak iz Izbora modere poezije
Nijedan pesnik predstavljen u ovoj knjizi nije imao više od pedeset godina kada sam 1919. počeo da je sastavljam. Najstariji od svih rođen je 1870. godine. Na njenim stranicama zato nedostaju mnogi dobri i neki veliki živi pesnici. Ovde nema ništa od g. Hardija ili g. Bridžisa, od g. A. E. Housmana, g. Jejtsa, AE, g. Binjona, g. Hjuleta, g. Herberta Trenča, g. Gosa, g. Ostina Dobsona, g. Dautija, g. Kiplinga, ser Henrija Njubolta, gđe Mejnel, Gospođa Vuds, gospodin Vilfrid Blant i drugi čija se imena moraju pojaviti u bilo kojoj sveobuhvatnoj antologiji živih pesnika. Datum, 1870. godine, izabran je proizvoljno: kao i bilo koji drugi datum. Ali neki datum sam morao da odredim, jer je moj cilj bio da ilustrujem ono što mnogi od nas misle o izuzetnom nedavnom cvetanju. Ne predlažem da analiziram tendencije, u ideji i metodi, prikazane u pesmama koje su ovde sakupljene. Ove stvari se uvek bolje vide na daljinu; a u svakom slučaju materijali su tu za izradu analize od strane samog čitaoca, ako je željan. Ali ja ću izneti jedno mišljenje, i skrenuti pažnju na jedan fenomen. Mišljenje je da većina pesama u ovoj knjizi ima zasluga i da je mnogo više moglo biti štampano bez snižavanja standarda. A fenomen je istovremeno pojavljivanje – rezultat osnovnih tokova misli i osećanja – veoma velikog broja pesnika koji pišu samo ili uglavnom u lirskim oblicima.

Selections from Modern Poets - John Collings Squire

Excerpt from Selections From Modern Poets
No poet represented in this book was over fifty when, in 1919, I began to compile it. The eldest of them all was born in 1870.
Many good and some great living poets are therefore missing from its pages. Nothing is here by Mr Hardy or Mr Bridges, by Mr A. E. Housman, Mr Yeats, AE, Mr Binyon, Mr Hewlett, Mr Herbert Trench, Mr Gosse, Mr Austin Dobson, Mr Doughty, Mr Kipling, Sir Henry Newbolt, Mrs Meynell, Mrs Woods, Mr Wilfrid Blunt, and others whose names must appear in any comprehensive anthology from living poets. The date, 1870, was arbitrarily chosen: so would any other date have been. But some date I had to fix, for my object was to illustrate what many of us think an exceptional recent flowering.
I do not propose to analyse the tendencies, in idea and in method, exhibited in the poems here collected. These things are always better seen at a distance; and anyhow the materials are here for the production of an analysis by the reader himself, if he is eager for one. But I will express one opinion, and call attention to one phenomenon. The opinion is that the majority of the poems in this book have merit and that many more could have been printed without lowering the standard. And the phenomenon is the simultaneous appearance - the result of underlying currents of thought and feeling - of a very large number of poets who write only or mainly in lyrical forms.