Abstract

Abstract In 1973, Philip Larkin produced his edition of the Oxford Book of Twentieth- Century English Verse, seeking to identify a native literary tradition organized around a colloquial idiom whose precursors were Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, and the Georgian poets. In order to emphasize this lineage, Larkin chose to omit altogether from his anthology the works of Ezra Pound and to minimize the contributions of T. S. Eliot, on the grounds that it was not within the editor ‘s remit to ‘include poems by American or Commonwealth writers, nor poems requiring a glossary for their full understanding ‘.

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