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PEW Selected by John BetjemanBAUDELAIRE Translated by Roy Campbell'BEAT'POETS Selected by Gene BaroBURNS Love Songs  \nCHRISTINA ROSSETTI Selected by Naomi LewisCOMIC VERSE Selected by David HerbertCOUNTRY POEMS Selected by Geoffrey GrigsonDANNIE ABSE  \n# D.H.LAWRENCE Love PoemsEDITH SITWELL\n\nEDWARD LEAR Nonsense SongsEDWARD THOMAS  \nELIZABETHAN LOVE LYRICS Selected by John HadfieldFAMOUS AMERICAN POEMS Selected by Gene BaroGEORGIAN POETS Selected by Alan Pryce-JonesGERARD MANLEY HOPKINS  \nGEORGE HERBERT Selected by David HerbertJAZZ POEMS Selected by Anselm HolloJOHN BETJEMAN  \n# JOHN DONNE Love Poems\n\nJOHN KEATS Selected by David HerbertLAURIE LEE  \nLIVING VOICES Selected by Jon SilkinLEWIS CARROLL Nonsense Verse  \nMODERN EUROPEAN VERSE Selected by Dannie AbseMODERN RUSSIAN POETRY Translated by Jack LindsayNEGRO VERSE Selected by Anselm HolloNEW voICES Selected by Alan Pryce-JonesRICHARD CHURCH  \nROCHESTER Selected by Robert DuncanRUPERT BROOKE  \nSHAKESPEARE Songs from the PlaysTENNYSON Selected by Raymond MortimerWALTER DE LA MARE Selected by John Hadfield  \n# THE POCKET POETS\n\nMODERNEUROPEAN VERSE  \nSelected byDANNIE ABSE  \nLONDON·VISTA BOOKS  \nFIRST PUBLISHED IN I964 BYVISTA BOOKS·LONDON  \nMADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BYTHE GARDEN CITY PRESS LIMITEDLETCHWORTH,HERTFORDSHIRE  \nCONTENTS  \nBERTOLT BRECHT:To Posterity9Changing the Wheel  \nII  \nC.P.CAVAFY:Expecting the BarbariansI2CandlesI3PAUL CELAN:Death FugueI4ZBIGNIEW HERBERT:The Seventh AngelI6MIGUEL HERNANDEZ:Hear This VoiceI8JUAN RAMÓN JIMENEZ:To the Sonnet zwith my Soul2IFEDERICO GARCIA LORCA:The Faithless Wife22Somnambulistic Ballad24ITZIK MANGER:fealous Adam27V.V.MAYAKOVSKY:Suicide Note29BORIS PASTERNAK:First Frost30No Title3IIt is not Seemly32JACQUES PREVERT:Exercise Book33How to Paint the Portrait of a Bird35SALVATORE QUASIMODO:Thanatos Athanatos37RAINER MARIA RILKE:  \nTwo Poems from The Book of Hours38Autumn39On the Sunny Road40The Boy4IGEORGE SEFERIS:from Mythical Story42from Gymnopaedia43ANGHELOS SIKELIANOS:UnwrittenYEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO:Babiy Yar47  \n45  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nTWENTY-FIVE years ago,the work of European poets suchas Rilke and Lorca was read in England with great avidity.Not only were poetry readers internationally minded butthe English poets themselves seemed to be engagedemotionally and polemically with the political happeningsin Europe.Such writers reacted unequivocally,like litmuspaper to acid,to European conflict—to the civil war inSpain,for example.They were hostile in their writings,and in their ancillary activities,to the rise of Nazism inGermany and Fascism in Italy.But fashions change,sothat not long after World War II had ended,if an Englishpoet proclaimed in his work a similar,engaged interest inthe social upheavals of distant countries he would,un-doubtedly,have been labelled a political romantic—and,by then,the very word ‘romantic',in critical parlance,hadbecome almost a dirty word.  \nIndeed,by the I950's,critical opinion in England hadventured to the opposite extreme,and the virtues inpoetry,primarily praised,were those that could be singledout as distinctively English.Poets like Eliot and Poundwhose influences and interest were obviously European inscope were downgraded,and Hardy,Edward Thomas,Robert Graves,achieved a new popularity.Though poetssuch as Edward Thomas have their own attraction andexcellence,many looking back may,nevertheless,come tothink that much ephemeral reviewing and criticism inEngland during this period was marked and limited by abarely conscious chauvinism.In any event,a criticismwhich countenanced poetry as a kind of genteel,socialaccomplishment could hardly spotlight favourably thevigorous,and rather differently ordered poetry that wasbeing written abroad.  \nThere are signs,though,that such a parochial criticalclimate is coming to an end,and this trend is reflected notleast in the new revived interest in 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