Description

Revised, Shorter Edition of Modern American & Modern British Poetry, edited by Louis Untermeyer in consultation with Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur. Published by Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.; this is the 1955 printing (earlier copyrights 1919–1950). it has blue hardcover binding featuring a curved magenta block on the left side with white title text.

This is a substantial anthology collecting prominent mid-20th-century verse from both American and British poets. It synthesizes two previously separate volumes, bringing together foundational works of early-to-mid modernism from both sides of the Atlantic. The collection balances canonical, traditional figures with rising experimental writers of the era, serving as a staple educational text for studying modern literature.