Robert Lynd's Anthology of Modern Poetry (1939)
Lynd was a long-serving literary editor at the News Chronicle. Himself a minor poet, and married to Sylvia Lynd who was widely published, his sympathies as shown in this selection were most largely with figures from the Irish literary revival, and the Georgian poets. The book was published by Methuen, who had produced a sequence of anthologies in the 1920s and 1930s; Lynd had introduced the very popular 1924 selection by Algernon Methuen himself, called An Anthology of Modern Verse. Subsequently the firm had produced an anthology edited jointly by Cecil Day-Lewis and L. A. G. Strong. Poets included in Lynd's book were:
Lascelles Abercrombie - Martin Armstrong - W. H. Auden - Maurice Baring - Hilaire Belloc - Laurence Binyon - Edmund Blunden - Gordon Bottomley - Lilian Bowes Lyon - Robert Bridges - Rupert Brooke - Joseph Campbell - Roy Campbell - G. K. Chesterton - Richard Church - Austin Clarke - Padraic Colum - Frances Cornford - Margaret Cropper - Charles Dalmon - W. H. Davies - Edward Davison - C. Day-Lewis - Walter de la Mare - Lord Alfred Douglas - John Drinkwater - Clifford Dyment - A. E. - T. S. Eliot - James Elroy Flecker - Viola Garvin - Monk Gibbon - Stella Gibbons - W. W. Gibson - Oliver Gogarty - Louis Golding - Gerald Gould - Bryan Guinness - George Rostrevor Hamilton - Thomas Hardy - Christopher Hassall - F. R. Higgins - Ralph Hodgson - Gerard Manley Hopkins - A. E. Housman - Aldous Huxley - Douglas Hyde - James Joyce - Frank Kendon - T. M. Kettle - Rudyard Kipling - D. H. Lawrence - Francis Ledwidge - Eiluned Lewis - F. L. Lucas - Sylvia Lynd - Thomas MacDonagh - Louis Macneice - John Masefield - Charlotte Mew - Alice Meynell - Alice Milligan - Harold Monro - T. Sturge Moore - Sir Henry Newbolt - Robert Nichols - Alfred Noyes - Frank O'Connor - Moira O'Neill - Seamus O'Sullivan - Wilfred Owen - Herbert Palmer - Padraic H. Pearse - Ruth Pitter - Hugh Gordon Porteus - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - Herbert Read - Ernest Rhys - Richard Rowley - V. Sackville-West - Siegfried Sassoon - Edward Shanks - Fredegond Shove - Edith Sitwell - Stanley Snaith - Charles H. Sorley - Stephen Spender - Sir John Squire - William Force Stead - James Stephens - L. A. G. Strong - Dylan Thomas - Edward Thomas - Edward Thompson - Herbert Trench - W. J. Turner - Katharine Tynan - Sir William Watson - Dorothy Wellesley - Evelyn Underhill - Sir Robert Vansittart - Sylvia Townsend Warner - Charles Williams - Humbert Wolfe - W. B. Yeats - Andrew Young - Francis Brett Young
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