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STUDIES OFCONTEMPORARYPOETS

STUDIES OFCONTEMPORARYPOETS

ByMARY C. STURGEONAUTHOR OF "WOMEN OF THE CLASSICS" ETC.

NEW YORKDODD, MEAD & COMPANYMCMXVI

PRINTED ATTHE BALLANTYNE PRESSLONDON, ENGLAND

TO

PROFESSOR W. H. HUDSON

IN GRATITUDE AND ESTEEM

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Acknowledgment

The author begs to offer warm thanks to the following poets and theirpublishers, for the use of the quotations given in these studies:

Mr Masefield and "John Presland"; Mr John Lane for the work of MrAbercrombie and Mrs Woods; Messrs Sidgwick and Jackson for the work ofMiss Macaulay and Rupert Brooke; Mr A. C. Fifield and Mr Elkin Mathewsfor the work of Mr W. H. Davies; Messrs Constable for the work of Mr dela Mare; Mr Elkin Mathews, New Numbers, and the Samurai Press for thework of Mr W. W. Gibson; the Poetry Bookshop for the work of Mr Hodgson;Messrs Max Goschen Ltd. for the work of Mr Ford Madox Hueffer; MessrsMaunsel and Co Ltd for the work of the members of "An Irish Group" andof Mr Stephens; the Samurai Press and the Poetry Bookshop for the workof Mr Monro; and Mr William Heinemann for the work of Mrs Naidu.

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