Harold Monro — Some Contemporary Poets (1920)

London, Leonard Parsons, 1920. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this critical study of contemporary poets from English poet Harold Monro. First edition. A collection of critical essays on contemporary poets, with reference to Robert Bridges, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Alice Meynell, Walter De La Mare, Ezra Pound, Edith Sitwell, Hillaire Belloc, John Drinkwater, and many others. Including a commentary on twentieth century characteristics. Written by Harold Edward Monro, an English poet born in Brussels, and the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London where he helped many poets to bring their work before the public. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with age toning to the endpapers and the previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .