THE GREAT MODERN POETS
The Great Modern Poets
Edited by Michael Schmidt
Quercus, 2010, 2014, 2024
The Quercus edition is a beautifully illustrated book containing over 150 twentieth-century poems, including work by Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, poets of the First World War, e.e. cummings, W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Ezra Pound and Sylvia Plath. Each chapter comprises introductory quotations, an illustration, a biography of the poet, and a selection of their key poems.
The hardcover edition is accompanied by an audio CD with 17 of the 50 poets reading their own work – a perfect introduction to twentieth century poetry.