Chapter I: Poetry

GEORGIAN POETRY: 1911-1912

Published December 1912

GEORGIAN / POETRY / 1911-1912 / (_six small ornaments in triangular arrangement_) / The Poetry Bookshop / 35 Devonshire St. Theobalds Rd. / London W. C.

COLLATION:—pp. viii + 200, consisting of half-title (verso
blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _Dedicated_ /
_To_ / _Robert Bridges_ / _By the Writers_ / _And the Editor_
on verso), pp. (iii, iv); _Prefatory Note_ (with long quotation
from Lord Dunsany on verso), pp. (v, vi); table of _Contents_,
pp. (vii, viii); divisional fly-leaf, with _Lascelles
Abercrombie_ on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp.
3-193; p. (194) blank; _Bibliography_, pp. 195-197. Printers’
imprint at center of p. (198) as follows: Device (Stag and
Tree) with lettering, _The_ / _Arden_ (device) _Press_ /
_Letchworth_ Pp. (199, 200) blank.

Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in light brown boards; front cover lettered in gilt and ornamented as follows: _Georgian Poetry_ / _1911-1912_ / _P_ (diamond) _B_ (on bright red shield) / _The Poetry Bookshop_ Backbone lettered in gilt: _Georgian_ / _Poetry_ / _1911-1912_ Back cover blank. Top edges gilt; fore edges uncut and unopened; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.

Five volumes of _Georgian Poetry_ have so far been published. All but one of these volumes, that for 1916-1917, contain contributions by Mr. Lawrence. He is represented in the above collection, at pages 113-116, by “Snap-Dragon,” a poem which was printed in the _English Review_, June 1912, but which appeared for the first time between boards in _Georgian Poetry_. It was later included in _Amores_.

In America, the five volumes of _Georgian Poetry_ were published, from the Poetry Bookshop sheets, by G. P. Putnam’s Sons.

GEORGIAN POETRY: 1913-1915

Published November 1915

GEORGIAN / POETRY / 1913-1915 / (_six small ornaments in triangular arrangement_) / The Poetry Bookshop / 35 Devonshire St. Theobalds Rd. / London W. C. / MCMXV

COLLATION:—pp. x + 246, consisting of half-title (verso blank),
pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _In Memoriam_ / _R. B._
/ _J. E. F._ on verso), pp. (iii, iv); _Prefatory Note_ (verso
blank), pp. (v, vi); table of _Contents_, pp. (vii-ix); p. (x)
blank; divisional fly-leaf, with _Gordon Bottomley_ on recto
(verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. 3-239; p. (240) blank;
_Bibliography_, pp. 241-244. Pp. (245, 246) are occupied by
advertisements of _Poetry Bookshop Publications_. Printers’
imprint at foot of p. (246) as follows: _Printed by W. H. Smith
& Son (The Arden Press), 53_ (slanting line) _5 Fetter Lane,
London, E. C._

Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in light blue boards; front cover lettered in gilt as follows: _Georgian Poetry_ / _1913-1915_ / _The Poetry Bookshop_ Backbone lettered across in gilt and ornamented: _Georgian_ / _Poetry_ / _1913-1915_ / _P_ (diamond) _B_ (on bright red shield). Back cover blank. Top edges gilt; fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. End-papers white.

To the second volume of _Georgian Poetry_ Mr. Lawrence contributed the following poems: “Service of All the Dead;” “Meeting among the Mountains;” “Cruelty and Love.” They occupy pages 153-158. The last was reprinted from _Love Poems_; the first was later included in _Look! We Have Come Through!_ where it appeared under the title “Giorno dei Morti.” “Meeting among the Mountains” has not, unless I am mistaken, been included in any of Mr. Lawrence’s books of verse.

SOME IMAGIST POETS

Published April 1915

SOME IMAGIST / POETS / An Anthology / (_publishers’ device_) / Boston and New York / Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge / 1915

COLLATION:—pp. ii + x + 96, consisting of leaf, not reckoned in
pagination, recto blank (with seven titles in _The New Poetry
Series_, surrounded by one-line border, on verso), pp. (i, ii);
half-title (verso blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above
(with _Copyright, 1915, By Houghton Mifflin Company_ / _All
Rights Reserved_ / _Published April 1915_ on verso), pp. (iii,
iv); _Preface_, pp. v-(viii); table of _Contents_, pp. ix, (x);
divisional fly-leaf, with _Richard Aldington_ on recto (verso
blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. 3-(92); divisional fly-leaf,
with _Bibliography_ on recto (verso blank), pp. (93, 94);
_Bibliography_, p. (95). Printers’ imprint at center of p. (96)
as follows: _The Riverside Press_ / _Cambridge . Massachusetts_
/ _U . S . A_

Crown 8vo, 7¾ × 5⅝; issued in plain flexible boards, with surrounding green paper wrappers glued along back strip only; front cover lettered in black as follows: _Some Imagist Poets_ / _An Anthology_ / _The New Poetry Series_ / (publishers’ device) _Houghton Mifflin Company_ / _Boston and New York_ / (small ornament). Lettered down backstrip: _Some Imagist Poets_ Back cover blank. All edges cut flush with boards. Wrappers over-lap top and bottom edges ⅛ inch, and fold in three inches at fore edges of boards. End-papers white.

To this volume, the first of three _Imagist Anthologies_ published by the Houghton Mifflin Company, Mr. Lawrence contributed seven poems as follows: “Ballad of Another Ophelia;” “Illicit;” “Fireflies in the Corn;” “A Woman and Her Dead Husband;” “The Mowers;” “Scent of Irises;” “Green.” These poems occupy pages 67 to 78. The first and sixth appeared later in _Amores_. The second, third, fifth, and seventh were included in _Look! We Have Come Through!_ But, “The Mowers,” revised, was here printed under the title “A Youth Mowing,” and “Illicit” became “On a Balcony.” “A Woman and Her Dead Husband” is, in _New Poems_, “The Bitterness of Death.”

Because the contributors to the _Imagist Anthologies_ had agreed among themselves to submit nothing that had previously appeared in book form, these collections are of especial interest to collectors of Mr. Lawrence’s first printings in books.

The _Imagist Anthologies_ were published in England by Constable and Company, but after the American editions, which were the first.

SOME IMAGIST POETS: 1916

Published May 1916

SOME IMAGIST POETS / 1916 / (_a line_) / An Annual Anthology / (_publishers’ device_) / Boston and New York / Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge / 1916

COLLATION:—pp. ii + xvi + 98, consisting of leaf, not
reckoned in pagination, recto blank (with thirteen titles in
_The New Poetry Series_ on verso), pp. (i, ii); half-title
(verso blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with
_Copyright, 1916, By Houghton Mifflin Company_ / _All Rights
Reserved_ / _Published May 1916_ on verso), pp. (iii, iv);
_Preface_, pp. v-(xii); table of _Contents_, pp. xiii, (xiv);
acknowledgement—ten lines (verso blank), pp. (xv, xvi);
divisional fly-leaf, with _Richard Aldington_ on recto (verso
blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. 3-(91); p. (92) blank; divisional
fly-leaf, with _Bibliography_ on recto (verso blank), pp. (93,
94); _Bibliography_, pp. 95, (96); p. (97) blank. Printers’
imprint at center of p. (98) as follows: _The Riverside Press_
/ _Cambridge . Massachusetts_ / _U . S . A_

Crown 8vo, 7¾ × 5⅝; issued in plain flexible boards, with surrounding green paper wrappers glued along back strip only; front cover lettered in black as follows: _Some Imagist Poets, 1916_ / _An Annual Anthology_ / _The New Poetry Series_ / (publishers’ device) / _Houghton Mifflin Company_ / _Boston and New York_ / (small ornament). Lettered down back strip: _Some Imagist Poets, 1916_ Back cover blank. All edges cut flush with boards. Wrappers over-lap top and bottom edges ⅛ inch, and fold in three inches at fore edges of boards. End-papers white.

To the second _Imagist Anthology_ Mr. Lawrence contributed five poems: “Erinnyes;” “Perfidy;” “At the Window;” “In Trouble and Shame;” “Brooding Grief.” These poems occupy pages 67-74. All but “Erinnyes,” most beautiful of war poems, were later included in _Amores_. Any one of the many anthologies of war poetry might have enriched itself greatly by including “Erinnyes.” If any such collection did make use of this poem, I am unaware of it.

SOME IMAGIST POETS: 1917

Published April 1917

SOME IMAGIST POETS / 1917 / (_a line_) / An Annual Anthology / (_publishers’ device_) / Boston and New York / Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge / 1917

COLLATION:—pp. viii + 92, consisting of half-title (verso
blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _Copyright,
1917, By Houghton Mifflin Company_ / _All Rights Reserved_
/ _Published April 1917_ on verso), pp. (iii, iv);
acknowledgement—eight lines (verso blank), pp. (v, vi); table
of _Contents_, pp. vii, (viii); divisional fly-leaf, with
_Richard Aldington_ on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text,
pp. 3-(86); divisional fly-leaf, with _Bibliography_ on recto
(verso blank), pp. (87, 88); _Bibliography_, pp. 89, (90); p.
(91) blank. Printers’ imprint at center of p. (92) as follows:
_The Riverside Press_ / _Cambridge . Massachusetts_ / _U . S .
A_

Crown 8vo, 7¾ × 5⅝; issued in plain flexible boards, with surrounding green paper wrappers glued along back strip only; front cover lettered in black as follows: _Some Imagist Poets, 1917_ (a line beneath numbers) / _An Annual Anthology_ / (publishers’ device) / _Houghton Mifflin Company_ / _Boston and New York_ (small ornament). Lettered down backbone in black: _Some Imagist Poets, 1917_ (a line beneath numbers). Back cover blank. All edges cut flush with boards. Wrappers over-lap top and bottom edges ⅛ inch, and fold in three inches at fore edges of boards. End-papers white.

To this, the third and last Houghton Mifflin _Imagist Anthology_, Mr. Lawrence contributed only one poem, “Terra Nuova,” which occupies pages 69-75. “Terra Nuova” was later included in _Look! We Have Come Through!_ under the title “New Heaven and Earth.”

NEW PATHS

Published May 1918

NEW PATHS / Verse (_dot_) Prose (_dot_) Pictures / 1917-1918 / Edited by / C. W. Beaumont and M. T. H. Sadler / Decorated by / Anne Estelle Rice / (_publisher’s device_) / London / C. W. Beaumont / 75 Charing Cross Road W. C. 2

COLLATION:—pp. xii + 164 (with a frontispiece), consisting
of half-title (verso blank), pp. (i, ii); frontispiece;
title-page, as above (with _First published May 1918_ on
verso), pp. (iii, iv); dedication (verso blank), pp. (v,
vi); table of _Contents_, pp. (vii-x); blank leaf, pp. (xi,
xii); _Verse_, pp. 1-74; _Prose_, pp. 75-111; _Pictures_, pp.
112-164. At end of volume there is twelve-page, unnumbered
and undated, catalogue of various _Publishers’ Announcements_
Tipped-in between pp. (x) and (xi) is an errata slip—seven
lines.

Foolscap 4to, 8¾ × 6¾; issued in light tan boards; front cover lettered and ornamented in dark blue as follows: _New Paths_ / _Verse_ (dot) _Prose_ (dot) _Pictures_ / _1917-1918_ / (a bowl of fruit). Backbone has white paper title label, with one-line border in dark blue, lettered in dark blue: _New_ / _Paths_ / _1917-18_ / (small ornament) / _C. W._ / _Beaumont_ Back cover has at center woman’s head, in dark blue. Top and fore edges uncut and in part unopened; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.

To this representative collection of modern verse, prose, and pictures Mr. Lawrence contributed two poems: “Labour Battalion” and “No News,” which occupy pages 37-39. So far as I am aware neither of these poems has been reprinted in any of Mr. Lawrence’s books of poems. It is likely that the edition of _New Paths_ was small, for this book has already become scarce—at least for an anthology.

An American edition of _New Paths_ was published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1918.

BOOK OF BRITISH VERSE

BOOK OF BRITISH VERSE. Edited by W. S. Braithwaite. Boston, 1919. (Small, Maynard and Company.)

Contains: “Kisses in the Train,” by Mr. Lawrence. This poem was reprinted from _Love Poems_; it appeared in the above anthology under the incorrect title “Kisses in the Rain.”

GEORGIAN POETRY: 1918-1919

GEORGIAN POETRY: 1918-1919. (Selected by E. M.) London, 1919. (The Poetry Bookshop.)

Contains: “Seven Seals,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from _New Poems_.

MODERN BRITISH POETRY

MODERN BRITISH POETRY. Edited by Louis Untermeyer. New York, 1920. (Harcourt, Brace and Company.)

Contains: “People;” “Piano,” by Mr. Lawrence. The former was reprinted from _Look! We Have Come Through!_ the latter from _New Poems_.

AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN VERSE

AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN VERSE. Chosen by A. M. With an Introduction by Robert Lynd. London (1921). (Methuen and Company.)

Contains: “Giorno dei Morti,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from _Look! We Have Come Through!_

POETICA EROTICA

POETICA EROTICA. A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. Edited by T. R. Smith. Volume II. New York, 1921. (Boni and Liveright.)

Contains: “A Bad Beginning;” “Excursion;” “Last Words to Miriam;” “Lilies in the Fire;” “Mystery;” “New Year’s Eve;” “New Year’s Night;” “Reproach;” “Wedlock,” by Mr. Lawrence. These poems were reprinted from _Love Poems_, _Amores_, and _Look! We Have Come Through!_

THE LE GALLIENNE BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE

THE LE GALLIENNE BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE. Edited, with an Introduction, by Richard Le Gallienne. New York, 1921. (Boni and Liveright.)

Contains: “All of Roses,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted apparently from _Poetry_, although these same verses were in 1917 included in _Look! We Have Come Through!_ under the title “River Roses.” A marvelous lyric, however called.

GEORGIAN POETRY: 1920-1922

Published November 1922

GEORGIAN / POETRY / 1920-1922 / (_six small ornaments in triangular arrangement_) / The Poetry Bookshop / 35 Devonshire St. Theobalds Rd. / London W. C. 1 / MCMXXII

COLLATION:—pp. xiv+210, consisting of half-title (with
_Published November, 1922_ on verso), pp. (i, ii); title-page,
as above (with _To_ / _Alice Meynell_ / _Made and printed
in Great Britain._ on verso), pp. (iii, iv); _Prefatory
Note_, pp. (v-vii); p. (viii) blank; table of _Contents_, pp.
(ix-xiii); p. (xiv) blank; divisional fly-leaf, with _Lascelles
Abercrombie_ on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp.
3-200; divisional fly-leaf, with _Bibliography_ on recto (verso
blank), pp. (201, 202); _Bibliography_, pp. 203-207. Printers’
imprint at center of p. (208) as follows: (Stag and Tree
device), with lettering, _The_ / _Arden_ (device) _Press_ /
_W. H. Smith & Son_ / _The Arden Press_, / _Stamford Street_ /
_London, S. E. 1._ Pp. (209, 210) blank.

Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in bright red boards; front cover lettered in gilt as follows: _Georgian Poetry_ / _1920-1922_ / _The Poetry Bookshop_ Backbone lettered across in gilt: _Georgian_ / _Poetry_ / _1920-1922_ / _P_ (diamond) _B_ (on dark blue shield). Back cover blank. Top edges gilt; fore edges uncut and in part unopened; bottom edges rough trimmed. End-papers white.

In this volume of _Georgian Poetry_ Mr. Lawrence is represented by “Snake.” This remarkable poem appeared in the _Dial_, July 1921, and was later included in _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.

A MISCELLANY OF POETRY: 1920-1922

A MISCELLANY OF POETRY (1920-1922). Edited by W. K. Seymour. London (1922). (John G. Wilson.)

Contains: “Snake,” by Mr. Lawrence. This collection was, according to a line of type in the volume, published in December, 1922.

SHORTER LYRICS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

SHORTER LYRICS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Selected, with a foreword, by W. H. Davies. London (1922). (Poetry Bookshop.)

Contains: “Gloire de Dijon;” “Service of All the Dead,” by Mr. Lawrence. These poems were reprinted from _Look! We Have Come Through!_ The second poem appears in this volume under the title “Giorno dei Morti.” Probably Mr. Davies took it directly from _Georgian Poetry_: 1913-1915, where the older title was used.

NEW VOICES

NEW VOICES: An Introduction to Contemporary Poetry. Marguerite Wilkinson. New York, 1922. (The Macmillan Company.)

Contains: “Fireflies in the Corn,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from _Look! We Have Come Through!_

THE NEW POETRY

THE NEW POETRY. Edited by Harriet Monroe and Alice C. Henderson, New York, 1923. (The Macmillan Company.)

Contains: “A Woman and Her Dead Husband;” “Fireflies in the Corn;” “Green;” “Grief;” “Service of All the Dead;” “Nostalgia;” “A Baby Asleep after Pain;” “Tommies in the Train;” “Resurrection,” by Mr. Lawrence.

All but one of these poems were evidently reprinted from _Poetry_, edited by the compilers of _New Poetry_. All but “Resurrection” have been printed in certain of Mr. Lawrence’s volumes of verse: namely, _Amores_, _Look! We Have Come Through!_, _New Poems_, and _Bay_.

BEST POEMS OF 1923

BEST POEMS OF 1923. Edited by L. A. G. Strong. Boston (1924). (Small, Maynard and Company.)

Contains: “The Evening Land,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.

THE LITTLE BOOK OF MODERN BRITISH VERSE

THE LITTLE BOOK OF MODERN BRITISH VERSE. Edited by Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Boston and New York, 1924. (Houghton Mifflin Company.)

Contains: “Gloire de Dijon;” “A Baby Asleep after Pain;” “Nostalgia;” “Snake,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from _Look! We Have Come Through!_, _Bay_, and _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.

SECOND SELECTIONS FROM MODERN POETS

SECOND SELECTIONS FROM MODERN POETS. Made by J. C. Squire. London (1924). (Martin Secker.)

Contains: “Kangaroo;” “Snake;” “Man and Bat,” by Mr. Lawrence. All of these poems were reprinted from _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.