Modern

Edward Shanks

1892–1953


Edward Shanks (1892–1953) was an English poet, novelist and critic, associated with the Georgian poets and with the London Mercury, which J. C. Squire edited.

His poem here comes from Untermeyer's Modern British Poetry (1920).

  1. Complaint
  2. A Night-Piece
  3. In Absence
  4. The Glow-worm
  5. The Cataclysm
  6. A Hollow Elm
  7. Fête Galante
  8. Song
  9. The Rock Pool
  10. The Glade
  11. Memory
  12. Woman's Song
  13. The Wind
  14. A Lonely Place

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