Excerpt from An Anatomy of Poetry, Vol. 1Certain portions of this book have appeared from time to time in The Spectator.The author acknowledges the courtesy of the authors and publishers in giving her permission to quote excerpts from the following books: A. D. Waley's Japanese Poetry (Milford) and More Translations from the Chinese (Allen and Unwin), Mr. Masefield's works (Heinemann), Charlotte Mew's The Farmer's Bride (Poetry Bookshop), E.: V. Lucas's Parodies Regained (Methuen), Edward Shanks's The Island of Youth (Collins) and The Queen of China (Secker), Augustine Rivers's The Death of Mercury (Daniel), W. W. Gibson's works (MacMillan), Osbert Sitwell's De Luxe (Leonard Parsons), Rupert Brooke's 1914 and other Poems, and Edmund Blunden's Waggoner (Sidgwick and Jackson), Robert Nicholls's Aurelia (Chatto and Windus), D. H. Lawrence's Amores (Duckworth), J. E. Flecker's Collected Poems (Secker), Sturge Moore's works (Grant Richards), Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow (Chatto and Windus), and Walter de la Mare's Collected Works and The Veil (Constable).About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.