Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://archive.org/details/studiesofcontemp00sturrich Transcriber's note: In the original text, a row of spaced periods was used to separate extracts where lines of the poems were omitted. In this version these are represented as "....." Greek text has been transliterated and enclosed by equal signs (example: =eithe genoimên=). STUDIES OF CONTEMPORARY POETS by MARY C. STURGEON Author of "Women of the Classics" etc. [Illustration] New York Dodd, Mead & Company MCMXVI Printed at The Ballantyne Press London, England TO PROFESSOR W. H. HUDSON IN GRATITUDE AND ESTEEM _Acknowledgment_ The author begs to offer warm thanks to the following poets and their publishers, for the use of the quotations given in these studies: Mr Masefield and "John Presland"; Mr John Lane for the work of Mr Abercrombie and Mrs Woods; Messrs Sidgwick and Jackson for the work of Miss Macaulay and Rupert Brooke; Mr A. C. Fifield and Mr Elkin Mathews for the work of Mr W. H. Davies; Messrs Constable for the work of Mr de la Mare; Mr Elkin Mathews, _New Numbers_, and the Samurai Press for the work of Mr W. W. Gibson; the Poetry Bookshop for the work of Mr Hodgson; Messrs Max Goschen Ltd. for the work of Mr Ford Madox Hueffer; Messrs Maunsel and Co Ltd for the work of the members of "An Irish Group" and of Mr Stephens; the Samurai Press and the Poetry Bookshop for the work of Mr Monro; and Mr William Heinemann for the work of Mrs Naidu. Contents PAGE LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE 11 RUPERT BROOKE 36 WILLIAM H. DAVIES 53 WALTER DE LA MARE 72 WILFRID WILSON GIBSON 87 RALPH HODGSON 108 FORD MADOX HUEFFER 122 AN IRISH GROUP 137 ROSE MACAULAY 181 JOHN MASEFIELD 197 HAROLD MONRO 217 SAROJINI NAIDU 235 "JOHN PRESLAND" 248 JAMES STEPHENS 282 MARGARET L. WOODS 301 BIBLIOGRAPHY 327 Lascelles Abercrombie