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Excerpt from The Second Book of Modern Verse: A Selection From the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets It was my intention, when preparing The Little Book of Modem Verse, published in 1913, to continue the series by a volume once in five years, but as it seemed inadvisable to issue one during the war, it is now six years since the publication of the first volume. In the meantime, that the series might cover the period of American poetry from the beginning, The Little Book of American Poets was edited, confined chiefly to work of the nineteenth century, but ending with a group of living poets whose work has fallen equally within our own period. This group, including Edwin Markham, Bliss Carman, Edith Thomas, Louise Imogen Guiney, Lizette Woodworth Reese, and many others whose work has enriched both periods, was fully represented also in The Little Book of Modern Verse; and it has seemed necessary, therefore, keenly as I regret the necessity, which limits of space impose, to omit the work of all poets who have been represented in both of my former collections. Indeed the period covered by the present volume has been so prolific that it became necessary, if one would represent it with even approximate adequacy, to forego including many poets from The Little Book of Modern Verse itself, and but twenty-eight are repeated from that collection. Even with these necessary eliminations in the interest of space for newer poets, the general scheme of the series - that of small, intimate volumes that shall be typical of the period, rather than exhaustive - has made it impossible to include all whose work I should otherwise have been glad to represent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.