A book of narrative verse [antikvár]

Preface For much valuable help in the selection the editor is indebted to several friends, especially to Mrs. Thomas, who placed unreservedly at his service a scheme for an anthology of narrative verse drawn up provisionally in 1914 by her husband, Edward Thomas, who was killed before he could complete it; and to Dr. J. C. Smith, who, in addition to various other suggestions, selected the passages from Spenser and Milton. V. H. C. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are due to Messrs. William Heinemann for A. C. Swinburne's 'St. Dorothy'; to Mr. A. T. A. Dobson for Austin Dobson's 'The Ballad of "Beau Brocade"'; to the Executors of Thomas Hardy and Messrs. Macmillan & Co. for 'The Sacrilege'; to Sir Henry Newbolt for 'A Ballad of John Nicholson' (from Collected Poems i8gy-i^oy); to Laurence Binyon for 'The Battle of Stamford Bridge'; to Messrs. Burns, Oates, & Washbourne for 'Lepanto' (from G. K. Chesterton's Collected Poems); to Mr. John Masefield for 'The Rider at the Gate' (from Collected Poems published by Messrs. William Heinemann); to Mr. Alfred Noyes and Messrs. William Blackwood & Sons for 'The Highwayman' (from Collected Poems); and to Messrs. Methuen & Co. for 'Tomlinson' (from Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verse).