Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

PREFACE . M Y thanks are due (1) to the authors , who have so V generously placed their work at my disposal ; (2) to Sir Arthur Quiller - Couch , King Edward VII . Professor of English Literature , for his introduction ; and to him , and to Mr . Frank W. Stokoe , scholar of Caius College , for very helpful criticism and advice ; (3) to Miss Vere Cochran , Librarian of Girton College , who lent me a number of books that I should not otherwise have seen ; (4) to the editors of the following papers for kind permission to reprint poems which have appeared in their pages :- The Times ( Women 's Supplement ), Country Life , Poetry and Drama , The Poetry Review , The Equinox , The Nation , The New Age , The Westminster Gazette , The Eyewitness , The Cambridge Review , The Cambridge Magazine , and The Granta ; (5) to the following firms of publishers for allowing me to make use of copyright matter : Mr . Heineman , for poems from “ The Bird of Time ," by Sarojini Naidu ; Mr . Edward Arnold , for two extracts from “ Week - day Poems ," by Hugh Owen Meredith ; Messrs . Sidgwick and Jackson , for poems by Rupert Brooke ; Mr . Nutt , for part of a poem from " Songs of the Double Star ," by G. Leathem ; The Poetry Bookshop for " Grantchester " by Rupert Brooke ; Mr . John Lane , for one poem from “ The