Edited by Anthony Astbury, who opened the Greville Press (officially) in 1979 in the hopes that poetry in England "
The title comes from a sonnet by Fulke Greville, Lord Brook:
Man's youth it is a field of large desires,The anthology includes pieces by Robert Bridges, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Daryush, Lawrence Durrell, Kate Ellis, David Gascoyne, W.S. Graham, Robert Graves, Ian Hamilton, John Heath-Stubbs, George Herbert, John Masefield, Edna O'Brien, Harold Pinter, Anne Ridler, Alan Ross, Martin Seymour-Smith, C.H. Sisson, Stevie Smith, and Arseny Tarkovsky, among others.
Which pleas'd within, doth all without them please;
For in this love of men live those sweet fires,
That kindle worth and kindness unto praise;
And where self-love most from her selfness gives,
Man greatest in himself, and others lives.
Henry Reed's "The Auction Sale" was printed as a Greville Press pamphlet in 2006.
