Excerpt from The Masque of Poets: A Collection of New Poems by Contemporary American Poets I do not claim completeness for this series of poems, but I do claim that it is representative. I regret the absence Of several contributors whose contributions to the spiritual life Of our day have been notable, but the war has had a numbing effect on many minds, and in other cases poets have recently published volumes containing every manuscript that they cared to print. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.