There is, or used to be, a Penguin anthology of Nineties verse chosen and edited by John Betjeman, so it is dubious if we really need another. This one, however, has useful potted biographies and good notes, and so presumably carries extra scholarly clout. All Yeats's confreres of the Rhymers' Club are present, Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, Victor Plarr, Richard Le Gallienne, etc., but there are also poems by Yeats himself, Hardy, Housman, Kipling, John Davidson, even Newbolt. So the hearties have their say as well as the aesthetes. A pity that nobody thought of representing Seumas O'Sullivan, whom Betjeman justly included in his volume.