This second edition updates and expands the excellent The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, edited by the late Ian Hamilton (CH, Sep'94, 32-0041). Editor Noel-Tod (Univ. of East Anglia) maintains the volume's high quality, but makes several significant changes to its structure. Major groups and movements, such as the Beat Generation, surrealism, and imagism, are now sequestered in an appendix and no longer interfiled with entries on poets. Hamilton, an advocate of "little magazines," featured numerous titles as main entries, but the new edition places such information with the magazine's editor. This works well for Hamilton's The Review, but Geoffrey Grigson's New Verse essentially disappears. Coverage shifts to the years 1910-2010, and numerous poets receive expanded treatment. The percentage of women poets is greatly increased, especially among those newly included. Unfortunately, some entries deserving revision are unaltered. Carl Sandburg remains "largely dropped from sight," despite being the subject of a recent film in the PBS American Masters series. Noel-Tod makes a noble effort to temper the biases of the first edition while maintaining a critical eye for judging a poet's reputation and importance. This outstanding volume is appropriate for a reference collection, but equally pleasurable for casual reading. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers. R. M. Roberts Lincoln Land Community College