This anthology evokes memories, real and imagined - of the poems themselves of course since as children to recite Browning and Keats from it was commonplace - and of the darker days of WW II. Published in 1944 (the dedication in my War Economy Standard copy is dated 22nd March), one realises now how important poetry was to our parents' generation helping them to cope with the awfulness of their times. The same might apply today.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 49 January 2009 ) |
