In England the Victorian Age was about to become the past and a new age of worldwide wars of horror and slaughter would envelop and decimate generations, forever staining mankind. The Century would see the World discover strengths. The Democracies would stand firm against Fascism and later Communism yet still keep its own elite and privileged in power and the rest of us underfoot.The World was more connected than ever before. Culture accelerated its kaleidoscopic and interwoven journey. Transport delivered people by car and train and then aeroplane to far flung corners of the globe. Empires were at their zenith and ready to fragment with new nations, many troubled, rising from their decay.The natural world continued to be plundered and pillaged for its resources by industries who pledged `more' and `better' and would clothe and feed a growing world yet sow the seeds now ready to devastate us in our current times.The globe was as vibrant and violent as troubled and tarnished as it ever was. But new ideas, new political systems, new times changed everything once again. 1 - The Poets of the Early 20th Century - Volume 1 - An Introduction2 - At the Grave of the Forgotten by Effie Waller Smith3 - Preparation by Effie Waller Smith4 - A Rajput Love Song by Sarojini Naidu5 - My Dead Dream by Sarojini Naidu6 - The Poet's Love Song by Sarojini Naidu7 - The Royal Tombs of Golconda by Sarojini Naidu8 - Real Property by Harold Monro9 - Midnight Lamentation by Harold Monro10 - Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens11 - The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens12 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens13 - Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock by Wallace Stevens14 - The Wayfarer by Patrick Pearse15 - The Mother by Patrick Pearse16 - To My Daughter Betty, The Gift of God by Tom Kettle17 - On Leaving Ireland, July 14th 1916 by Tom Kettle18 - Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimké19 - The Eyes of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimké20 - Image by Edward Storer21 - The Blind Ploughman by Radclyffe Hall22 - Ode To Sappho by Radclyffe Hall23 - Ardour by Radclyffe Hall24 - Palace by Guillaume Apollinaire25 - One Evening by Guillaume Apollinaire26 - The White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire27 - The Heart of A Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson28 - When I Rise Up by Georgia Douglas Johnson29 - Sunlight and the Sea by Alfred Noyes30 - The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes31 - The Rose by John Cournos32 - Among the Rodins by John Cournos33 - The Volunteer by Herbert Asquith34 - Autumn, 1914 by Mary Webb35 - Fallen by Alice Corbin36 - Two Voices by Alice Corbin37 - The Joy of a Dog by Edgar Albert Guest38 - See It Through by Edgar Albert Guest39 - It Couldn't Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest40 - An Old Woman of the Roads by Padraic Colum41 - A Prayer by James Joyce42 - Tilly by James Joyce43 - Sleep Now, O Sleep Now by James Joyce44 - Night Piece by James Joyce45 - Translation by Anne Spencer46 - White Things by Anne Spencer47 - Deirdre by James Stephens48 - Midnight by James Stephens49 - La Vie C'est La Vie by Jessie Fauset50 - Dead Fires by Jessie Fauset51 - Spectral by John Drinkwater52 - The Life of Love - Spring by Khalil Gibran53 - On Pain by Khalil Gibran54 - Autumn by Khalil Gibran55 - Song of the Flower by Khalil Gibran56 - Proof of Immortality by William Carlos Williams57 - This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams58 - The Crowd at the Ball Game by William