I have to thank the living poets from whose works I have drawn for permitting me to use everything I wanted. I am grateful to Mrs Brooke and Rupert Brooke's literary executor, Mr Edward Marsh (whose "Georgian" collections have been a great stimulus and help to me) for permission to use a selection from Brooke; to Mrs J. E. Flecker for poems by her husband; to Lady Desborough for the poems by her son, Julian Grenfell; to Lord Dunsany for the poems by Francis Ledwidge; to Mrs Thomas Macdonagh and Mrs Joseph Plunkett for the poems by their husbands; to Mrs Owen for her son Wilfrid Owen's _Strange Meeting;_ to Professor W. R. Sorley for the poems by his son, Charles Sorley; to Lady Glenconner for those by her son, Edward Wyndham Tennant; to Mrs Edward Thomas for the poems (published too late for him ever to know-how people would admire them) by Edward Thomas.
Finally, almost every publisher in the kingdom has assisted the book with permission to reprint copyright poems. The full list of publishers and works is as follows: Messrs Bell (Edward L. Davison, _Poems_); Blackwell (E. Wyndham Tennant, _Worple Flit_); Burns' Oates and Washbourne (G. K. Chesterton, _Poems_); Cambridge University Press (C. H. Sorley, _Marlborough and other Poems_); Chatto and Windus (Robert Nichols, _Ardours and Endurances, Aurelia,_ Wilfred Owen, _Poems_); Collins (F. Brett Young, _Poems_); Constable (Gordon Bottomley, _Annual of New Poetry,_ 1917, W. de la Mare, _Collected Poems_); Dent (G. K. Chesterton, _The Wild Knight_); Duckworth (H. Belloc, _Poems,_ D. H. Lawrence, _Love Poems,_ Sturge Moore, _Collected Poems_); Fifield (W. H. Davies, _Collected Poems_); Heffer (A. Y. Campbell, _Poems_); Heinemann (Robert Graves, _Fairies and Fusiliers,_ John Masefield, _Lollingdon Downs,_ Siegfried Sassoon, _The Old Huntsman, Counter-Attack, War Poems_); Herbert Jenkins (Francis Ledwidge, _Poems_); Lane (Lascelles Abercrombie, _Emblems of Love_); Macmillan (Ralph Hodgson, _Poems,_ James Stephens, _Songs from the Clay_); Elkin Mathews (Gordon Bottomley, _Chambers of Imagery,_ James Joyce, _Chamber Music,_ Sturge Moore, _The Vinedresser_); Maunsel and Roberts (Padraic Colum, _Poems,_ Seumas O'Sullivan, _The Twilight People,_ Joseph Plunkett, _Poems_); Methuen (G. K. Chesterton, _The Ballad of the White Horse,_ W. H. Davies, _The Bird of Paradise,_ I. A. Williams, _Poems_); Palmer (Francis Burrows, _The Green Knight_); Poetry Bookshop (Frances Cornford, _Poems,_ Harold Monro, _Children of Love, Strange Meetings_); Seeker (Martin Armstrong, _The Buzzards,_ Maurice Baring, _Poems_ 1914-1919, J. E. Flecker, _Collected Poems,_ Robert Graves, _Country Sentiment,_ Edward Shanks, _The Queen of China_); Selwyn and Blount (Robin Flower, _Hymensea,_ John Freeman, _Poems New and Old,_ Edward Thomas, _Collected Poems_); Sidgwick & Jackson (Edmund Blunden, _The Waggoner,_ Rupert Brooke, _Collected Poems,_ John Drinkwater, _Olton Pools,_ R. C. K. Ensor, _Odes,_ Ivor Gurney, _Severn and Somme,_ R. Macaulay, _The Two Blind Countries,_ W. J. Turner, _The Hunter, The Dark Fire_); Talbot Press and Fisher Unwin (T. Macdonagh, _Poems_).