Acknowledgements

GRATEFUL acknowledgement is here made for permission given during their lifetime to include poems by the following authors now deceased: H. C. Beeching (for two poems of his own and for his redaction of Quia Amore Langueo); A. C. Benson; Robert Bridges; John Davidson; Aubrey de Vere; Austin Dobson; Sir Edmund Gosse; Bret Harte; W. E. Henley; Katherine Tynan Hinkson; W. D. Howells; Andrew Lang; George Meredith; Alice Meynell; Sir Henry Newbolt; Sir Gilbert Parker; T. W. Rolleston; G. W. Russell (‘Æ’); Mrs. Clement Shorter (Dora Sigerson); A. C. Swinburne; Francis Thompson; Sir William Watson; W. B. Yeats.

My thanks are also due to publishers and others for kind permission to include copyright poems by the following:

Lascelles Abercrombie: Messrs. John Lane the Bodley Head, Ltd.
William Allingham: the late Mrs. Allingham.
William Barnes: the executors.
Hilaire Belloc: Mr. Belloc and Messrs. Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd.
Laurence Binyon: Mr. Binyon.
Edmund Blunden: Mr. Blunden.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: Sir Sydney Cockerell.
Gordon Bottomley: Mr. Bottomley.
F. W. Bourdillon: the executors.
Robert Bridges: The Clarendon Press.
Rupert Brooke (from Poems): the author’s representatives; Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson; Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York; Messrs. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto.
T. E. Brown (from Collected Poems of T. E. Brown): the author’s representatives; Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.; The Macmillan Co., New York.
Bliss Carman: the executors.
Mrs. Browning: the proprietors of Mr. and Mrs. Browning’s copyrights and Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., Ltd.
J. A. Chapman: Mr. Chapman.
G. K. Chesterton: Miss Collins, Messrs. Methuen & Co., Ltd., and Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York (for ‘The Rolling English Road’); Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co., Ltd. (for ‘The Donkey’).
Mary Coleridge (from Poems): Sir Francis Newbolt and the executors of the late Sir Henry Newbolt; Messrs. Elkin Mathews.
Padraic Colum: Mr. Colum and The Macmillan Co., New York.
W. H. Davies: Mr. Davies; Messrs. Jonathan Cape, Ltd.; Oxford University Press, New York.
Walter de la Mare: Mr. De La Mare.
Lord Alfred Douglas (from Sonnets): Lord Alfred Douglas and Messrs. Rich & Cowan, Ltd.
Ernest Dowson: Messrs. John Lane the Bodley Head, Ltd.
Mary Duclaux (Darmesteter): the author.
George du Maurier: Lady du Maurier.
Sir Samuel Ferguson: the late Lady Ferguson.
Edward FitzGerald: the late William Aldis Wright and Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
James Elroy Flecker: Messrs. Martin Secker & Warburg, Ltd.
Norman Gale: Mr. Gale.
Oliver St. John Gogarty: Mr. Gogarty.
Julian Grenfell: Lord and Lady Desborough.
Thomas Hardy: the executrix; Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.; The Macmillan Co., New York.
Ralph Hodgson: Mr. Hodgson; Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd; The Macmillan Co., New York.
G. M. Hopkins: the Oxford University Press.
Lord Houghton: the Marquis of Crewe.
A. E. Housman (from Last Poems and A Shropshire Lad): the literary executors and Messrs. Henry Holt, Inc., New York.
Dr. Douglas Hyde: Dr. Hyde.
Selwyn Image: the executors.
Jean Ingelow: Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co., Ltd.
Lionel Johnson: Messrs. Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Ltd.
James Joyce (from Collected Poems): Mr. Joyce; Messrs. Faber & Faber, Ltd.; The Viking Press, New York.
Rudyard Kipling (from Rewards and Fairies): Mrs. Kipling; Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.; Messrs. Doubleday Doran & Co.; The Macmillan Co. of Canada, Ltd.
Hon. Emily Lawless: Hon. Kathleen Lawless.
Richard Le Gallienne: Mr. Le Gallienne.
John Masefield (from The Collected Poems of John Masefield): Mr. Masefield; Messrs. Wm. Heinemann, Ltd.; The Macmillan Co., New York.
George Meredith: Messrs. Constable & Co., Ltd., and Messrs. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York.
Thomas Sturge Moore: Mr. Moore.
William Morris: Sir Sydney Cockerell.
Sir Henry Newbolt (from Poems New and Old): Sir Francis Newbolt and the executors of the late Sir Henry Newbolt.
Alfred Noyes: Mr. Noyes.
Arthur O’Shaugnessy: Messrs. Chatto & Windus, Ltd.
Wilfrid Owen: Mrs. Owen; Messrs. Chatto & Windus, Ltd.; The Viking Press, New York.
H. E. Palmer: Mr. Herbert Palmer and Messrs. J. M. Dent & sons.
Eden Phillpotts: Mr. Phillpotts.
Stephen Phillips: Messrs. John Lane the Bodley Head, Ltd.
William Philpot: the executor.
W. B. Rands: Messrs. John Lane the Bodley Head, Ltd.
Ernest Rhys: Mr. Rhys.
Christina Rossetti: Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
John Ruskin: Mr. George Allen.
George William Russell (‘Æ’): Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.; The Macmillan Co., New York.
Siegfried Sassoon: Mr. Sassoon; Messrs. Wm. Heinemann, Ltd.
W. B. Scott: the executors.
Walter C. Smith: Messrs. Jackson, Son, & Co., Ltd., Glasgow.
Charles Sorley: Mrs. Sorley and the Cambridge University Press.
James Stephens: Mr. Stephens; Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.; The Macmillan Co., New York.
R. L. Stevenson: the executors; Messrs. Chatto & Windus, Ltd.; Messrs. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York.
A. C. Swinburne: Messrs. Wm. Heinemann, Ltd.
Frederick Tennyson: the executors.
Lord Tennyson (from Works of Alfred Tennyson): the author’s representative; Messrs. Macmillan & Co., Ltd.; The Macmillan Co., New York.
Edward Thomas (from Collected Poems of Edward Thomas): Mrs. Edward Thomas and Messrs. Faber & Faber, Ltd.
Francis Thompson: Mr. Wilfrid Meynell.
James Thomson: the late Bertram Dobell.
F. Herbert Trench: Messrs. Jonathan