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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
GRATEFUL acknowledgement is here made for permission given during their lifetime to include poems by the following authors now deceased H. C. Beeching (for two poems of his own and for his redaction of Quia Amore Langueo); A. C. Benson; Robert Bridges; John Davidson, Aubrey de Vere; Austin Dobson; Sir Edmund Gosse, Bret Harte, W. E. Henley, Katharine Tynan Hinkson; W. D. Howells, Andrew Lang; George Meredith; Alice Meynell, Sir Henry Newbolt; Sir Gilbert Parker; T. W. Rolleston; G. W. Russell ('Æ'), Mrs. Clement Shorter (Dora Sigerson), A. C. Swinburne; Francis Thompson; Sir William Watson, W. B. Yeats.
My thanks are also due to publishers and others for kind permission to include copyright poems by the following:
- Lascelles Abercrombie. Messrs. John Lane the Bodley Head, Ltd.
- William Allingham: the late Mrs. Allingham.
- William Barnes: the executors.
- Hilaire Belloc: Mr. Belloc and Messrs. Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd.
- Laurence Binyon: Mr. Binyon.
- Edmund Blunden: Mr. Blunden.
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: Sir Sydney Cockerell.
- Gordon Bottomley: Mr. Bottomley.
- F. W. Bourdillon: the executors.
- Robert Bridges: The Clarendon Press.
- Rupert Brooke (from Poems): the author's representatives; Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson; Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York ; Messrs. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto.
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