The Poet’s Tongue. An Anthology chosen by …

London: G. Bell & Sons, 1935. First edition. xxxiv, [2], 222, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth, t.e.g. Fine in near fine dust jacket (minor soiling, tiny scuff at head of spine panel). First edition. xxxiv, [2], 222, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. “Poetry is no better and no worse than human nature; it is profound and shallow, sophisticated and naïve, dull and witty, bawdy and chaste in turn” (from the introduction).
Rich anthology of Anglo-American verse compiled by the young Auden and his friend John Garrett, who founded the Raynes Park school (for which Auden wrote the School Song).