AMERICAN AND BRITISH POETRY EDITED BY Era in American Poetry,” etc. WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY BY OLIVE ELY HART ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For permission to reprint most of the material in this volume, the editor wishes to thank not only the poets whose coöperation has been of such assistance, but also the publishers, all of whom are holders of the copyright. The indebtedness is alphabetically acknowledged to: RICHARD G. BADGER—for the poem from Sun and Saddle Leather by Badger Clark. BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY—for two poems from The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley. BRENTANO's—for the poem from Chanteys and Ballads by Harry Kemp. NICHOLAS L. BROWN—for the poem from Blood of Things by Alfred Kreymborg. THE CENTURY COMPANY-for the selections from Merchants from Cathay by William Rose Benét and War and Laughter by James Oppenheim. The CENTURY MAGAZINE—for "Lake Song" by Jean Starr Untermeyer. DODD, MEAD & COMPANY—for the poem from Lyrics of Lowly Life and Lyrics of Love and Laughter by Paul Laurence Dunbar. George H. DORAN COMPANY—for the selections from Moons of Grandeur by William Rose Benét, Vigils and Candles That Burn by Aline Kilmer, Trees and Other Poems by Joyce Kilmer. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY—for the selections from The Man with the Hoe and Lincoln and Other Poems by Edwin Markham. Thanks also are due Mr. Rudyard Kipling as well as A. PrWatt and Son for "The Return” from The Five Nations artd, "An Astrologer's Song" from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling. E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY—for the selections from The Vale of |