THE ADVANCE OF ENGLISH POETRY

IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

THE ADVANCE OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL

ARCHIBALD MARSHALL

THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC MOVEMENT

ESSAYS ON MODERN NOVELISTS

ESSAYS ON RUSSIAN NOVELISTS

ESSAYS ON BOOKS

BROWNING: HOW TO KNOW HIM

TEACHING IN SCHOOL AND COLLEGE

THE

ADVANCE OF ENGLISH POETRY
IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

BY

WILLIAM LYON PHELPS
Lampson Professor of English Literature at Yale
Member of the National Institute of
Arts and Letters