title: Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets (Excelsior Editions)
author:  Todd F. Davis 
description: "A valuable addition to one's personal library for all writers and readers of poetry, this anthology finds its rightful position among the tradition of entertaining and enlightening books in which authors discuss poetic craft or the creative process with a cogent blend of practical wisdom and refreshing clarity." -- -- Edward Byrne<br /><br />"This collection is a gift to creative writing classrooms everywhere. Rather than literal explanations of the text, these are fascinating explorations of the creative process, achieving the intimacy of a live reading." -- -- Faith Adiele
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  # Eyes of Youth
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Various
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  FOREWORD
  
  
  FRANCIS THOMPSON
  
  
  PADRAIC COLUM
  
  
  SHANE LESLIE
  
  
  VIOLA MEYNELL
  
  
  RUTH TEMPLE LINDSAY
  
  
  HUGH AUSTIN
  
  
  JUDITH LYTTON
  
  
  OLIVIA MEYNELL
  
  
  MAURICE HEALY
  
  
  MONICA SALEEBY
  
  
  FRANCIS MEYNELL
  
  
  
  
  
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      Eyes of Youth
  
  
  A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, A.O.
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Produced by Marc D'Hooghe.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  EYES OF YOUTH
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum—Shane
  
  
  
  
  
  Leslie—Viola Meynell—Ruth Lindsay—
  
  
  
  
  
  Hugh Austin—Judith Lytton—Olivia
  
  
  
  
  
  Meynell—Maurice Healy—Monica
  
  
  
  
  
  Saleeby—Francis Meynell—With
  
  
  
  
  
  four early Poems by Francis
  
  
  
  
  
  Thompson, &a Foreword by
  
  
  
  
  
  Gilbert K. Chesterton.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  “He has eyes of youth,
  
  
  he writes verses"
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Merry Wives of Windsor_.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The four early poems of Francis Thompson are here published,
  
  
  for
  
  
  the f