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Paperback. Condition: Good. Reprint. 270 pages. Clean greyish-beige background paperback covers with wear to covers' corners and edges. Light browning to page-edges and darker brown marks to fore-edge of pages o/w pages clean. Another copy available in Fair ++ condition with mustard-yellow backcovers which are grimy and worn to edges.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Revised. Paperback. Slight browning to top edge of pages through age. This collection now contains 175 poems b7 86 poets and ranges chronologically from W. B. Yeats, who was born in 1865, to Geoffrey Hill, who was seven years old when Yeats died in 1939. The youngest generation, of poets still under twenty-five, many of whom have not yet produced a book, is unrepresented; and perhaps the word 'contemporary' in the old title, which is retained for familiarity's sake, is already an umbrella with absurdly long spokes when it is to provide cover both for Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Dylan Thomas, and their contemporaries and for the poets who have established themselves in the nineteen-fifties. 411 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…