Oxford Poetry 1929

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Published by Blackwell's viii+56pp
edited by Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender
no preface

"Dedicated Neither to 'Poesy' Nor to the 'Zeitgeist'".


Contents

George Allen, as G. C. Allen: Lighting-up Time;

Phoebe Ashburner: Loneliness; Canoe;

Arthur Calder-Marshall: Dialogue; Misanthrope;

David Collin: Prelude for Sheep; Winter in the Parks; Desire;

H. Corbett-Palmer: The Dance of Death;

E. M. Crawford: Epitaph on an Ęsthete; On Someone who is very Beautiful;

R. H. S. Cameron: From 'Rediscovery'; March Snow;

Mary Crozier: Tea Garden;

John Hilton: Nonsense Song; Nonsense Fragment; The Deserted Astronomer; Cogito ergo morior;

Christopher Holme, as H. Christopher Holme: Marine Humours; Lost Illusions;

Douglas Jay: Burn on familiar cheek;

Louis MacNeice: Spring Sunshine (April 1929); Address from my death-bed to Dr. Bruno, the Concrete Universal (May 1929); Cradle Song (November 1928); Laburnum (May 1929);

Clere Parsons: Colour-Photograph; Suburban Naturepiece;

Edouard Roditi: Poem; Hand;

John Ross, as J. M. Ross: The Owl's Unheard Song; Wadham Garden;

E. J. Scovell: The Division; To The Mother of the Sick Child;

Graham Shepard: Poem; Queen Marjolaine; Lay for Parvenus; Poem;

Phyllis Singleton: Blue Shadows; Phantasy;

W. M. Spackman: Epigrams;

Bernard Spencer: Festa;

Stephen Spender: Marston, dropping it in the grate, broke his pipe; Lying awake at night; Hearing from its cage; Acts thrust beyond the boundary of mere wishing;

Roberta Teale Swartz: The Fisherman; The Tramp; Finale;

W. B. C. Watkins: Parabola;


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