Locker-Lampson's Lyra Elegantiarum, Mr. Miles'
Poets and Poetry of the Century, Mr. Beeching's Paradise of
English Poetry, Mr. Henley's English Lyrics, Mrs. Sharp's Lyra
Celtica, Mr. Yeats' Book of Irish Verse, and Mr. Churton Collins'
Treasury of Minor British Poetry: though my rule has been to
consult these after making my own choice. Yet I can claim that the
help derived from them--though gratefully owned--bears but a
trifling proportion to the labour, special and desultory, which
has gone to the making of my book.
For the anthologist's is not quite the dilettante business for
which it is too often and ignorantly derided. I say this, and
immediately repent; since my wish is that the reader should in his
own pleasure quite forget the editor's labour, which too has been
pleasant: that, standing aside, I may believe this book has made
the Muses' access easier when, in the right hour, they come to him
to uplift or to console--
[Greek]
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.
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