Hardy to Hughes: English poetry 1900-1970 without T. S. Eliot (or any women)

Actually quite refreshing?

At my mother’s house in England last week, I picked up, as I usually do, another handful of my oldest books. One of the ones I picked out this time was Hardy to Hughes. Selections from twelve poets of the twentieth century, edited by Eric Williams — a school anthology published by Edward Arnold in 1976 and reprinted in 1982.¹ (And perhaps thereafter, I d…