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Introduction

Acknowledgements

John Masefield [1878–1967]

C.L.M. [1910; Poems, Heinemann, 1946] Neville Chamberlain [The Times, 16 September 1938]

Blanaid Salkeld [1880–1959]

Radio Train [Experiment in Error, Hand and Flower Press, 1955] Equity [Experiment in Error, Hand and Flower Press, 1955]

Mina Loy [1882–1966]

Aviators’ Eyes [1940; The Last Lunar Baedeker, Carcanet, 1985]

Andrew Young [1885–1971]

Reflections on the River [1939; The Poetical Works, Secker & Warburg, 1985]

H.D. [1886–1961]

from R.A.F. [1941; Collected Poems, Carcanet, 1983]

Frances Cornford [1886–1960]

Soldiers on the Platform [Travelling Home, Cresset Press, 1948] Daybreak [Collected Poems, Cresset Press, 1954]

Edward Thompson [1886–1946]

In Patmos: I [New Recessional, Secker & Warburg, 1942]

Edith Sitwell [1887–1964]

Still Falls the Rain [1940; Collected Poems, Macmillan, 1957]

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