Oxford Poetry: Oxford Poetry 1928

Oxford Poetry 1928

From Fairie to the Somme: 1910-1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923
Into the Waste Land: 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932
New Age: 1936 1937
War and Movement: 1942-1943 1946:No 1 1946:No 2 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952
The Fantasy: 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1959 1960
"Fortnightly": 1970:No 1 1970:No 2 1970:No 3
Magazine: I.1 I.2 I.3 II.1 II.2 II.3 III.1 III.2 III.3 IV.1 IV.2 IV.3
Fin de siècle: V.1 V.2 V.3 VI.1 VI.2 VI.3 VII.1 VII.2 VII.3 VIII.1 VIII.2 VIII.3 IX.1 IX.2
Rebound: X.1 X.2 X.3 XI.1

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Published by Blackwell's xi+60pp
edited by Clere Parsons, B. B. [Basil Blackwell]
with A Plea for Better Criticism

Parsons pleads for more patience with difficult verse, echoing Eliot's criticism (far more acceptable to Oxford dons than Eliot's verse, at this time). He notes that the war compounded rather than alleviated conservatism in verse style: "by providing a common background to thoughts and emotions, [it] further accentuated the time-honoured worship of romantic geography by colouring it with the hues of patriotism."

George Allen, as G. C. Allen: Late Afternoon;

W. H. Auden: In Due Season;

Jocelyn Brooke: For a Lady on a Horse; En Bateau;

Arthur Calder-Marshall: Despair the Diplomat; To a Sumerian Necklet in the British Museum;

Norman Cameron: Central Europe; The Voyage to Secrecy; Fight with a Water-Spirit;

R. M. J. Campbell: Serena and Selina;

J. R. V. Collin: Invocation for Old Age; Reverie (By the Still Pool);

Mary Crozier: Lark and Sonata; Sonnet;

Jon Curling: Siesta at The Super; Cynics' Old Master for Sale; Street;

A. S. T. Fisher: From a Letter Abroad; At the Funeral of Thomas Hardy; Invitation to Drowning;

Phyllis Hartnoll: The Leaf and The Wind; 'Voici que les jardins de la Nuit vont fleurir';

Christopher Holme: Sebastian; Song, From _The Mermaid Tavern_;

C. J. Pennethorpe Hughes: Eccentric;

Louis MacNeice: Reading by Candle-Light; Glass Falling; Happy Families; Impermanent Creativeness;

Clere Parsons: A Plea for Better Criticism; By Day the Green Wind Which Stirs; Dancing; English Winter-Piece; Plage Demimondaine;

W. M. Phillips: L'Après-midi d'un Faune;

Brian Roberts: Sonnet; The New Jerusalem;

Frederick G. Roberts: White, White Ivory;

Nigel Maltby Robinson: The House that Jack Built; Still Tall Chimney Stacks;

John Ross, as J. M. Ross: Shabbington Wood;

E. J. Scovell: Angels Carved in the Church Roof;

W. M. Spackman: Lines to be cut upon a Tortoise;

Stephen Spender: Quixote on Time; Voyage;

Anthony Thorne: Sonnet;

Geoffrey Tillotson: The Nude Wordsworth; A Canary Travelling Passenger; Song;

Sholto Watt: For One Stricken in the Midst of Rejoicing; Poem on Spring;



			Oxford Poetry 1928 From Fairie to the Somme: 1910-1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 Into the Waste Land: 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 New Age: 1936 1937 War and Movement: 1942-1943 1946:No 1 1946:No 2 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 The Fantasy: 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1959 1960 "Fortnightly": 1970:No 1 1970:No 2 1970:No 3 Magazine: I.1 I.2 I.3 II.1 II.2 II.3 III.1 III.2 III.3 IV.1 IV.2 IV.3 Fin de siècle: V.1 V.2 V.3 VI.1 VI.2 VI.3 VII.1 VII.2 VII.3 VIII.1 VIII.2 VIII.3 IX.1 IX.2 Rebound: X.1 X.2 X.3 XI.1 Back to Oxford Poetry 1927 * Forward to Oxford Poetry 1929 * Home Published by Blackwell's xi+60pp edited by Clere Parsons, B. B. [Basil Blackwell] with A Plea for Better Criticism Parsons pleads for more patience with difficult verse, echoing Eliot's criticism (far more acceptable to Oxford dons than Eliot's verse, at this time). He notes that the war compounded rather than alleviated conservatism in verse style: "by providing a common background to thoughts and emotions, [it] further accentuated the time-honoured worship of romantic geography by colouring it with the hues of patriotism." Contents George Allen, as G. C. Allen: Late Afternoon; W. H. Auden: In Due Season; Jocelyn Brooke: For a Lady on a Horse; En Bateau; Arthur Calder-Marshall: Despair the Diplomat; To a Sumerian Necklet in the British Museum; Norman Cameron: Central Europe; The Voyage to Secrecy; Fight with a Water-Spirit; R. M. J. Campbell: Serena and Selina; J. R. V. Collin: Invocation for Old Age; Reverie (By the Still Pool); Mary Crozier: Lark and Sonata; Sonnet; Jon Curling: Siesta at The Super; Cynics' Old Master for Sale; Street; A. S. T. Fisher: From a Letter Abroad; At the Funeral of Thomas Hardy; Invitation to Drowning; Phyllis Hartnoll: The Leaf and The Wind; 'Voici que les jardins de la Nuit vont fleurir'; Christopher Holme: Sebastian; Song, From _The Mermaid Tavern_; C. J. Pennethorpe Hughes: Eccentric; Louis MacNeice: Reading by Candle-Light; Glass Falling; Happy Families; Impermanent Creativeness; Clere Parsons: A Plea for Better Criticism; By Day the Green Wind Which Stirs; Dancing; English Winter-Piece; Plage Demimondaine; W. M. Phillips: L'Après-midi d'un Faune; Brian Roberts: Sonnet; The New Jerusalem; Frederick G. Roberts: White, White Ivory; Nigel Maltby Robinson: The House that Jack Built; Still Tall Chimney Stacks; John Ross, as J. M. Ross: Shabbington Wood; E. J. Scovell: Angels Carved in the Church Roof; W. M. Spackman: Lines to be cut upon a Tortoise; Stephen Spender: Quixote on Time; Voyage; Anthony Thorne: Sonnet; Geoffrey Tillotson: The Nude Wordsworth; A Canary Travelling Passenger; Song; Sholto Watt: For One Stricken in the Midst of Rejoicing; Poem on Spring; Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Detail from "Parnassus" by Nicholas Poussin

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