The Poetry Review.Number I January 1912 [ - December Number Xii]. 1912. Brooke, Rupert [Contributor]. Eb59

12 issues in one volumes, small 4to, pp 567, [1], bound without wrappers and unnumbered adverts, but with title/content leaves [except to December issue for which not issued], continuous pagination, contemporary binder's cloth, a little rubbed and faded to spine but veyr good, FIRST BOOK FORM EDITION of the the first 12 issues of Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop jounral, which shopfronted many, as well as reviewing, poets of the New Georgian school of English poetry. It made a lasting mark in the November issue by printing five poems by Rupert Brooke, who had come to public notice through his first collection of the previous year. The Old Vicarage, Granchester is here presented in its final form [a version had already been tried out in a university publication], and was first immortalised here. Brooke also contributed a biting attack on Abercrombie's poetry in November, having been himself lauded as a new major poet by Monro in an early issue. Brooke's often amusing confronts with Poetry Society meetings are well documented in his letters but this 1912 volume, taken as a whole, places his work in the context of the variable quality of English poetry and criticism of the time.