Oxford Poetry: Oxford Poetry 1947

Oxford Poetry 1947

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 47pp
edited by Martin Starkie, Roy Macnab
with Introduction by Lord David Cecil.

Unique among Blackwell's editions in having a biographical index, revealing that of the 23 contributors 12 had served as officers in the war, and 2 as sergeants. Showing its mixed blood, so to speak, in being the old Blackwell's-style volume allied with the two OP pamphlets of 1946, this volume bears a heraldic cover device divided as the Oxford University crest on the left and a hand and star of David on the right. Whatever this signified, it did not appear again. Lord David Cecil, who seldom missed an opportunity to pose as an aesthete, praised the earlier look of OP in terms reminiscent of the celebrated blue lily vase which was the only adornment of Oscar Wilde's undergraduate rooms at Magdalen: "Within its elegant blue and white covers the successive literary fashions lie enshrined, ready for the future historian to examine." (It was for examining and failing the graduate degree of Kingsley Amis, editor two years later, that he was much maligned in the latter's Memoirs.)

Lord David Cecil: Introduction;

Ian Bancroft: Bridge on the Orne, 1944; Funeral;

Arthur Boyars: Contemporary Manners;

M. L. Burchnall: Future;

Guy Butler: Winter Solstice; Syrian Spring;

H. T. Corke: Byron;

Ian Davie: A Prologue;

Ann Davis: Bestiary; Sweet Helen;

Hugh Fletcher: June 6th, 1944;

Hilary Froomberg: The Carol of the Peacock and the Pelican;

Patrick Gardiner: Napoleon at St. Helena; Tennyson;

Roger Lancelyn Green: Fairy Song from "Thomas of Erildoune";

J. D. James: To the Virgins to make much of Time;

Derek Jewell: Humoresque;

Francis King: From a Greek Frieze; The Harp;

Michael Lloyd: The Birds; To Poins;

Roy Macnab: Blind Kings; The Lost Minister (In Memory of Lord Aberdeen);

Michael Meyer: Christ Church Meadows at Martinmas;

Kenneth Robinson: Occupation;

Gordon Swaine: Turgeniev; In Memory of Mistress Katharine Ryche;

John Wain: What are the Woes?;

Philip Warner: Mobility; Novitiate;

Terence Walton: For Ariadne; A Poet at Thirty (from the French of Jean Cocteau);

Jean Cocteau: A Poet at Thirty [translated Terence Walton];



			Oxford Poetry 1947 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 No 2 November 1946 * Forward to Oxford Poetry 1948 * Home Published by Blackwell's 47pp edited by Martin Starkie, Roy Macnab with Introduction by Lord David Cecil. Unique among Blackwell's editions in having a biographical index, revealing that of the 23 contributors 12 had served as officers in the war, and 2 as sergeants. Showing its mixed blood, so to speak, in being the old Blackwell's-style volume allied with the two OP pamphlets of 1946, this volume bears a heraldic cover device divided as the Oxford University crest on the left and a hand and star of David on the right. Whatever this signified, it did not appear again. Lord David Cecil, who seldom missed an opportunity to pose as an aesthete, praised the earlier look of OP in terms reminiscent of the celebrated blue lily vase which was the only adornment of Oscar Wilde's undergraduate rooms at Magdalen: "Within its elegant blue and white covers the successive literary fashions lie enshrined, ready for the future historian to examine." (It was for examining and failing the graduate degree of Kingsley Amis, editor two years later, that he was much maligned in the latter's Memoirs.) Contents Lord David Cecil: Introduction; Ian Bancroft: Bridge on the Orne, 1944; Funeral; Arthur Boyars: Contemporary Manners; M. L. Burchnall: Future; Guy Butler: Winter Solstice; Syrian Spring; H. T. Corke: Byron; Ian Davie: A Prologue; Ann Davis: Bestiary; Sweet Helen; Hugh Fletcher: June 6th, 1944; Hilary Froomberg: The Carol of the Peacock and the Pelican; Patrick Gardiner: Napoleon at St. Helena; Tennyson; Roger Lancelyn Green: Fairy Song from "Thomas of Erildoune"; J. D. James: To the Virgins to make much of Time; Derek Jewell: Humoresque; Francis King: From a Greek Frieze; The Harp; Michael Lloyd: The Birds; To Poins; Roy Macnab: Blind Kings; The Lost Minister (In Memory of Lord Aberdeen); Michael Meyer: Christ Church Meadows at Martinmas; Kenneth Robinson: Occupation; Gordon Swaine: Turgeniev; In Memory of Mistress Katharine Ryche; John Wain: What are the Woes?; Philip Warner: Mobility; Novitiate; Terence Walton: For Ariadne; A Poet at Thirty (from the French of Jean Cocteau); Jean Cocteau: A Poet at Thirty [translated Terence Walton]; Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Detail from "Parnassus" by Nicholas Poussin

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