Abstract

Poetry Briefs

The article discusses about the book, "The Profession of Poetry and Other Lectures," by H. W. Garrod. Most of these lectures were delivered at Oxford during the years 1923-1928 when Mr. Garrod was professor of poetry Miscellaneous in the extreme, they reveal certain aspects of Mr. Garrod which his more unified volumes on Wordsworth do not show. The book "The Winged Horse Anthology," by Joseph Auslander and Frank Ernest Hill. The anthology of British and American poems which they have now made runs all the way from Chaucer and the ballads to Housman. They claim a certain novelty for the book, and they have achieved it by refusing to restrict their selections to the kind of short and often stereotyped lyric inevitable in most such collections.