Successive revisions of this double anthology across a span of thirty years have led to this new and enlarged edition, expanded and reshaped in accord with the most recent developments in poetry. Mr. Untermeyer's discriminating taste and long experience in literary selection bring into sharp focus the stature and direction of modern poetry since Whitman and Hardy.
The biographical headnotes record changes since 1950, as do the Introductions to both volumes. Minor deletions have been made in b...