I found a book not
long ago featuring the best known poets of the 1920s. There were not over
six
of two hundred or more whose work still survives. --Sue

I was given a volume published in 1907.  A Hundred Great Poems, Richard
Cross editor.  Moving backwards from the last, the poets listed are:

AWE O'Shaughnessy
AC Swinburne
JR Lowell
AH Clough
Emily Bronte
Robert Browing
Emily Browning
Lord Houghton
Lord Tennyson
HW Longfellow
JA Symons
Lord Macaulay
Thomas Hood
Keats
Shelley
Byron
JH Leigh Hunt
Horace Smith
Thomas Moor
Charles Lamb
Coleridge
Wordsworth
Burns
Goldsmith
Gray
Milton
Edmund Waller
Robt Herrick
George Herbert
Ben Jonson
Henry Wotton
Shakespeare

The editor says the poems have stood the severe test of time and won their
way to the first rank, but set that list against a volume of 100 published
in the last 50 years and for the same period you get.?

I'm betting not not:

A long the garden ways just now
I heard the flowers speak;
The white rose told me of your brow,
The red rose of your cheek;

O'Shaughnessy's

Gary B




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