Double Page & Co., 1927. With decorations by Paul Honoré and a bibliography by Theresa West Elmendorf. 8vo. 9-3/16" x 6-1/8". Black cloth covered boards with pictorial front cover printed in orange. Pictorial decorative endpapers.451 pp. including index. Near fine.

"A single simple account of what poets had been and what they had done in the world. . . . .a story for older as well as younger readers . . . . . how poetry probably developed and what men had done with it, and explanation of its forms and music and about its place in the past and present life of the world." From Homer to Yeats there are references quotations and discussions of 145 poets. Item #2209