Oxford Poetry: Oxford Poetry 1932

Oxford Poetry 1932

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 viii+56pp
edited by Richard Goodman
no preface

"Dedicated to WYSTAN AUDEN, CECIL DAY LEWIS and STEPHEN SPENDER". This is frequently cited in books on the poetry of the Thirties, often by critics who feel that it proves their point (that the Auden gang now ruled town, etc.): though it is little different in character from the unremarked dedication of OP 1925 to Harold Acton. Valentine Cunningham's massively scholarly, yet relentlessly negative, "British Writers of the Thirties" drew the conclusion that OP "reads almost as a manual in how a class's cliquery can keep itself going ... there could be no clearer revelation of the narrow social base of England's literary life". Dr Cunningham appears to have discovered that OP's contributors were all at Oxford, then. Since Blackwell's advertised openly for submissions rather than allowing the editors to hand-pick from their friends, and since competent undergraduate verse was invariably in short supply, OP for the most part did not perpetuate cliques. Occasionally it brought lifelong friends together for the first time (Day Lewis and Auden; Spender and MacNeice; Quennell and Acton), but on the whole 1920s editors recall that they never met the majority of their selected contributors, even after publication.

C. S. Brown: The Martyrs; On Händel's "Messiah";

Claude Burgess: Cathédrale Engloutie;

K. N. Cameron: Exhortation to Poets in Time of Stress; Cyril Tourneur; Post Mortem;

Malcolm Easton: Kensington Interior; Ladbroke Grove; Wind and Roses; The Wardrobe; Jours filés d'or;

Austin Fancy: Since you are as you are...; I glance at you...;

Franklin Folsom: An Ode for the Rocky Mountains;

Johanna Fry: Telegraph Poles;

Richard Goodman: Lying Awake To-night; Those Lives the Sun Breathed; After their Life; It is too late; The Rebels;

Ralph B. Gustafson, as R. Gustafson: Nocturne in F Minor;

Christopher Hassall: The Ego;

J. H.: In a punt;

Paul Lucas: Spring Celebration; Poem ("Spring comes that over gardens pours"); Foreign Scenes;

A. Lloyd Owen: Telegram; Vagrant; On a Russian Film;

J. P. Scott: A Foreigner looks at England;

H. Smith: Commentary on Judas;

Bernard Spencer: Her hands waking on her lap; For seeing whole I had been too near my friends; Such height of corn;

Arthur Tillotson: Spring Equinox;

R. Trevor: Maizefield;

Laurence Whistler: Sonnet; Poem for a Birthday; Narcissus;

Frank Whitbourn: The City;



			Oxford Poetry 1932 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 1931 * Forward to New Oxford Poetry 1936 * Home Published by Blackwell's viii+56pp edited by Richard Goodman no preface "Dedicated to WYSTAN AUDEN, CECIL DAY LEWIS and STEPHEN SPENDER". This is frequently cited in books on the poetry of the Thirties, often by critics who feel that it proves their point (that the Auden gang now ruled town, etc.): though it is little different in character from the unremarked dedication of OP 1925 to Harold Acton. Valentine Cunningham's massively scholarly, yet relentlessly negative, "British Writers of the Thirties" drew the conclusion that OP "reads almost as a manual in how a class's cliquery can keep itself going ... there could be no clearer revelation of the narrow social base of England's literary life". Dr Cunningham appears to have discovered that OP's contributors were all at Oxford, then. Since Blackwell's advertised openly for submissions rather than allowing the editors to hand-pick from their friends, and since competent undergraduate verse was invariably in short supply, OP for the most part did not perpetuate cliques. Occasionally it brought lifelong friends together for the first time (Day Lewis and Auden; Spender and MacNeice; Quennell and Acton), but on the whole 1920s editors recall that they never met the majority of their selected contributors, even after publication. Contents C. S. Brown: The Martyrs; On Händel's "Messiah"; Claude Burgess: Cathédrale Engloutie; K. N. Cameron: Exhortation to Poets in Time of Stress; Cyril Tourneur; Post Mortem; Malcolm Easton: Kensington Interior; Ladbroke Grove; Wind and Roses; The Wardrobe; Jours filés d'or; Austin Fancy: Since you are as you are...; I glance at you...; Franklin Folsom: An Ode for the Rocky Mountains; Johanna Fry: Telegraph Poles; Richard Goodman: Lying Awake To-night; Those Lives the Sun Breathed; After their Life; It is too late; The Rebels; Ralph B. Gustafson, as R. Gustafson: Nocturne in F Minor; Christopher Hassall: The Ego; J. H.: In a punt; Paul Lucas: Spring Celebration; Poem ("Spring comes that over gardens pours"); Foreign Scenes; A. Lloyd Owen: Telegram; Vagrant; On a Russian Film; J. P. Scott: A Foreigner looks at England; H. Smith: Commentary on Judas; Bernard Spencer: Her hands waking on her lap; For seeing whole I had been too near my friends; Such height of corn; Arthur Tillotson: Spring Equinox; R. Trevor: Maizefield; Laurence Whistler: Sonnet; Poem for a Birthday; Narcissus; Frank Whitbourn: The City; Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Detail from "Parnassus" by Nicholas Poussin

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