The Little Book of Modern Verse
ed. Jessie B. Rittenhouse
[Note on text: Italicized lines or stanzas are marked by tildes (~).
Other italicized words have capitalized. Lines longer than 78 characters
are broken and the continuation is indented two spaces. Some obvious errors
may have been corrected.]
The Little Book of Modern Verse
A Selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets
Edited by Jessie B. Rittenhouse
[Selections made in 1913.]
Foreword
"The Little Book of Modern Verse", as its name implies,
is not a formal anthology. The pageant of American poetry
has been so often presented that no necessity exists
for another exhaustive review of the art. Nearly all anthologies, however,
|