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 20th Century - Volume 1 - An Introduction
2 - At the Grave of the Forgotten by Effie Waller Smith
3 - Preparation by Effie Waller Smith
4 - A Rajput Love Song by Sarojini Naidu
5 - My Dead Dream by Sarojini Naidu
6 - The Poet's Love Song by Sarojini Naidu
7 - The Royal Tombs of Golconda by Sarojini Naidu
8 - Real Property by Harold Monro
9 - Midnight Lamentation by Harold Monro
10 - Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
11 - The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens
12 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
13 - Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock by Wallace Stevens
14 - The Wayfarer by Patrick Pearse
15 - The Mother by Patrick Pearse
16 - To My Daughter Betty, The Gift of God by Tom Kettle
17 - On Leaving Ireland, July 14th 1916 by Tom Kettle
18 - Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimké
19 - The Eyes of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimké
20 - Image by Edward Storer
21 - The Blind Ploughman by Radclyffe Hall
22 - Ode To Sappho by Radclyffe Hall
23 - Ardour by Radclyffe Hall
24 - Palace by Guillaume Apollinaire
25 - One Evening by Guillaume Apollinaire
26 - The White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire
27 - The Heart of A Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson
28 - When I Rise Up by Georgia Douglas Johnson
29 - Sunlight and the Sea by Alfred Noyes
30 - The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
31 - The Rose by John Cournos
32 - Among the Rodins by John Cournos
33 - The Volunteer by Herbert Asquith
34 - Autumn, 1914 by Mary Webb
35 - Fallen by Alice Corbin
36 - Two Voices by Alice Corbin
37 - The Joy of a Dog by Edgar Albert Guest
38 - See It Through by Edgar Albert Guest
39 - It Couldn't Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest
40 - An Old Woman of the Roads by Padraic Colum
41 - A Prayer by James Joyce
42 - Tilly by James Joyce
43 - Sleep Now, O Sleep Now by James Joyce
44 - Night Piece by James Joyce
45 - Translation by Anne Spencer
46 - White Things by Anne Spencer
47 - Deirdre by James Stephens
48 - Midnight by James Stephens
49 - La Vie C'est La Vie by Jessie Fauset
50 - Dead Fires by Jessie Fauset
51 - Spectral by John Drinkwater
52 - The Life of Love - Spring by Khalil Gibran
53 - On Pain by Khalil Gibran
54 - Autumn by Khalil Gibran
55 - Song of the Flower by Khalil Gibran
56 - Proof of Immortality by William Carlos Williams
57 - This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams
58 - The Crowd at the Ball Game by William
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