Publisher's Synopsis
Credit is gratefully accorded the New York Times, America, Contemporary Verse, and Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, for permission to reprint sever-al of the pieces collected in this volume. For the privilege of reprinting poems quoted by Kilmer in his articles and lectures, acknowledgment is made to the following publishers: E. P. Dutton & Company, Dodd, Mead and Company, Charles Scribner's Sons, John Lane Company, The Mac-millan Company, Methuen and Company, Boni and Liveright, and Burns and Oates. And the permission of George Sterling is greatly appreci-ated for the right to reproduce his three sonnets on Oblivion. The article on Thomas Hardy, pre-pared as the Introduction to the Modern Library Edition of "The Mayor of Casterbridge," is repro-duced by special arrangement with Boni and Liveright. The publishers of "Warner's Library of the World's Best Literature" have courteously ex-tended permission to reprint here the four essays, originally written for that work, which conclude this volume.
