ABSTRACT
London, 1936, pp. 2–4
Michael Roberts (1902–48), teacher and poet, edited several well-known anthologies, and his Essays (1937) established him, according to T.S. Eliot, as the ‘most authoritative critic of contemporary poetry’ (quoted Haffenden, Auden: The Critical Heritage, p. 84).
The Faber Book of Modern Verse was one of the best-known selections of twentieth-century verse to appear in the twenties and thirties; it contained thirteen poems by Hopkins.
