My thanks are here tendered to those who have helped me with
permission to include recent poems: to Mr. A. C. Benson, Mr.
Laurence Binyon, Mr. Wilfrid Blunt, Mr. Robert Bridges, Mr. John
Davidson, Mr. Austin Dobson, Mr. Aubrey de Vere, Mr. Edmund Gosse,
Mr. Bret Harte, Mr. W. E. Henley, Mrs. Katharine Tynan Hinkson,
Mr. W. D. Howells, Dr. Douglas Hyde, Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Mr.
Andrew Lang, Mr. Richard Le Gallienne, Mr. George Meredith, Mrs.
Meynell, Mr. T. Sturge Moore, Mr. Henry Newbolt, Mr. Gilbert
Parker, Mr. T. W. Rolleston, Mr. George Russell ('A. E.'), Mrs.
Clement Shorter (Dora Sigerson), Mr. Swinburne, Mr. Francis
Thompson, Dr. Todhunter, Mr. William Watson, Mr. Watts-Dunton,
Mrs. Woods, and Mr. W. B. Yeats; to the Earl of Crewe for a poem
by the late Lord Houghton; to Lady Ferguson, Mrs. Allingham, Mrs.
A. H. Clough, Mrs. Locker-Lampson, Mrs. Coventry Patmore; to the
Lady Betty Balfour and the Lady Victoria Buxton for poems by the
late Earl of Lytton and the Hon. Roden Noel; to the executors of
Messrs. Frederic Tennyson (Captain Tennyson and Mr. W. C. A. Ker),
Charles Tennyson Turner (Sir Franklin Lushington), Edward
FitzGerald (Mr. Aldis Wright), William Bell Scott (Mrs. Sydney
Morse and Miss Boyd of Penkill Castle, who has added to her
kindness by allowing me to include an unpublished 'Sonet' by her
sixteenth-century ancestor, Mark Alexander Boyd), William Philpot
(Mr. Hamlet S. Philpot), William Morris (Mr. S. C. Cockerell),
William Barnes, and R. L. Stevenson; to the Rev. H. C. Beeching
for two poems from his own works, and leave to use his redaction
of Quia Amore Langueo; to Mssrs. Macmillan for confirming
permission for the extracts from FitzGerald, Christina Rossetti,
and T. E. Brown, and particularly for allowing me to insert the
latest emendations in Lord Tennyson's non-copyright poems; to the
proprietors of Mr. and Mrs. Browning's copyrights and to Messrs.