The Poets of the Early 20th Century - Volume 2: Find beauty and hope in a period ravaged worldwide by war

In England the Victorian Age was about to become the past and a new age of worldwide wars of horror and slaughter would envelop and decimate generations, forever staining mankind.
The Century would see the World discover strengths. The Democracies would stand firm against Fascism and later Communism yet still keep its own elite and privileged in power and the rest of us underfoot.

The World was more connected than ever before. Culture accelerated its kaleidoscopic and interwoven journey. Transport delivered people by car and train and then aeroplane to far flung corners of the globe. Empires were at their zenith and ready to fragment with new nations, many troubled, rising from their decay.

The natural world continued to be plundered and pillaged for its resources by industries who pledged ‘more’ and ‘better’ and would clothe and feed a growing world yet sow the seeds now ready to devastate us in our current times.

The globe was as vibrant and violent as troubled and tarnished as it ever was. But new ideas, new political systems, new times changed everything once again.

1 - The Poets of the Early Twentieth Century - Volume 2 - An Introduction

2 - The Lions by Joseph Mary Plunkett

3 - 1841-1891 by Joseph Mary Plunkett

4 - If We Return by F W Harvey

5 - The Soldier Speaks by F W Harvey

6 - The Negro Soldiers by Roscoe C Jamison

7 - Into Battle by Julian Grenfell

8 - Prayer For Those on the Staff by Julian Grenfell

9 - Hymn by Fenton Johnson

10 - Tired by Fenton Johnson

11 - Sonnet I by Fernando Pessoa

12 - If, After I Die by Fernando Pessoa

13 - I Have A Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger

14 - All Thats Not Love by Alan Seeger

15 - Maktoob by Alan Seeger

16 - The Unseen Planets by Raymond Chandler

17 - The Poet's Knowledge by Raymond Chandler

18 - I Saw A Man This Morning by Patrick Shaw Stewart

19 - Whispers of Immortality by T S Eliot

20 - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by T S Eliot

21 - Preludes by T S Eliot

22 - The Wounded Bird by Katherine Mansfield

23 - Stars by Katharine Mansfield

24 - A Fine Day by Katherine Mansfield

25 - I Taught Myself To Live Simply by Anna Akhmatova

26 - When I Write Poems by Anna Akhmatova

27 - Poetry by Claude McKay

28 - The White House by Claude McKay

29 - The Lynching by Claude McKay

30 - Strange Hells by Ivor Gurney

31 - Crucifix Corner by Ivor Gurney

32 - Serenade by Ivor Gurney

33 - Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg

34 - Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg

35 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg

36 - Journey's End by Zora Neale Hurston

37 - The Dog Tupman by Stella Benson

38 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay

39 - My Heart Being Hungry by Edna St Vincent Millay

40 - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St Vincent Millay

41 - Sonnet XVIII - I, Being Born a Woman by Edna St Vincent Millay

42 - Unity by Cesar Vallejo

43 - Love by Edith Sodergran

44 - On Foot I Had to Cross the Solar System by Edith Sodergran

45 - Insouciance by Richard Aldington

46 - Goodbye by Richard Aldington

47 - Grey Hairs by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva

48 - Lady with Camelias by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva

49 - To Mother by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva

50 - Back To Rest by Lietenant William Noel Hodgson MC

51 - Before Action by Lieutenant William Noel Hodgson MC

52 - Past One O'Clock by Vladimir Mayakovsky

53 - So This Is How I Turned into a Dog by Vladamir Mayakovsky

54 - Verse for a Certain Dog by Dorothy Parker

55 - A Dream Lies Dead by Dorothy Parker