
Luke Batterham
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The recipient was founder of the Poetry Society of America and champion of contemporary poets, including Pound, Eliot and Frost. She edited two anthologies of modern American verse as well as the one Joyce is here referring to, The Little Book of Modern British Verse: One Hundred Poets Since Henley (1924), where 'Oh Sweetheart, hear you' from Chamber Music is printed. When he wrote this letter, Joyce had of course moved far beyond his earlier essays in verse and, with Ulysses already behind him, was already deep into Finnegans Wake. It appears to be unpublished.