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