THE ADVANCE OF ENGLISH POETRY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

BY

WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

Lampson Professor of English Literature at Yale

Member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters


_O! 't is an easy thing
To write and sing;
But to write true, unfeigned verse
Is very hard!_

--HENRY VAUGHAN, _1655_




TO
MY FRIEND FOR FORTY YEARS

FRANK W. HUBBARD




ACKNOWLEDGMENT