Oxford Poetry: Oxford Poetry 1948

Oxford Poetry 1948

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 64pp
edited by Arthur Boyars, Barry Harmer
with Foreword

"Dedicated to Professor C. M. Bowra in affection and admiration". Like Nevill Coghill and Gilbert Murray before him, Maurice Bowra was a Professor, literary critic and verse translator naturally sympathetic to students who were also editors of poetry magazines; in 1925 he had, for instance, encouraged the young Day Lewis to read "The Waste Land". In 1948 he was Oxford Professor of Poetry, a post which has often meant being patron of OP.

Kingsley Amis: "In the open at dawn, bringing here this morning"; "The afternoon hangs over the house; dead hour"; "So far the night has come to hold this room in arms"; "Laid on this sand, the sea's edge alters, cut thin";

L. J. Arundel: T. E. Lawrence;

Oliver Bayley: Salamnbo; The Taster;

Peter Bingham: In November; In November forty seven, the Land;

Anne Bonsor: Provence;

Marjorie Boulton: First Tribute for M. M. L.;

Arthur Boyars: Foreword; Kleisthenes; Dialogue in Limbo;

Ronald Cohen: Sorrento; Lacrime Cristi: An Ode for the Nativity;

Ian Davie: Ithaca (For D. S. S.);

Geoffrey Dutton: A Girl on Sunday; Dust in Oxford; Elements of the Academic Scene;

Peter Gammond: Keep to the Path: By Order;

John Hale: Dying;

Robin Hallett: Landscape: Nightfall; Apotheosis;

Michael Hamburger: "Consider Oedipus: how he was racked by doubt";

Barry Harmer: Foreword; Cosmogony;

John Hewish: Suburban Children;

Haro Hodson: "Slumber an hour. Be held"; Through Optic Glass; Caryl Wills;

Denis Horne: Three Excerpts from "A King Will Die";

Elizabeth Jennings: The Elements;

B. A. Killeen: Reflections; The Swan;

John Larkman: Stranger;

Michael Lloyd: Elegy in May;

Mairi MacInnes: A Death;

P. A. T. O'Donnell: Exile; Spell;

J. R. Pim: Night in the City;

Kenneth Robinson: Thought for Monday;

William Jay Smith: The Wooing Lady; The Girl in Glass;

John Taylor: The Exile; Modern Love;

J. Edmund Tracey: Recollection;

Joseph Irving Wardle: Two Poems from "In the City"; From "St Anthony's Cut";

Peter Weitzman: Chorus: Tempest and Flutes;

William Whitmore: The Conqueror; Alpine Piece;



			Oxford Poetry 1948 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 1947 * Forward to Oxford Poetry 1949 * Home Published by Blackwell's 64pp edited by Arthur Boyars, Barry Harmer with Foreword "Dedicated to Professor C. M. Bowra in affection and admiration". Like Nevill Coghill and Gilbert Murray before him, Maurice Bowra was a Professor, literary critic and verse translator naturally sympathetic to students who were also editors of poetry magazines; in 1925 he had, for instance, encouraged the young Day Lewis to read "The Waste Land". In 1948 he was Oxford Professor of Poetry, a post which has often meant being patron of OP. Contents Kingsley Amis: "In the open at dawn, bringing here this morning"; "The afternoon hangs over the house; dead hour"; "So far the night has come to hold this room in arms"; "Laid on this sand, the sea's edge alters, cut thin"; L. J. Arundel: T. E. Lawrence; Oliver Bayley: Salamnbo; The Taster; Peter Bingham: In November; In November forty seven, the Land; Anne Bonsor: Provence; Marjorie Boulton: First Tribute for M. M. L.; Arthur Boyars: Foreword; Kleisthenes; Dialogue in Limbo; Ronald Cohen: Sorrento; Lacrime Cristi: An Ode for the Nativity; Ian Davie: Ithaca (For D. S. S.); Geoffrey Dutton: A Girl on Sunday; Dust in Oxford; Elements of the Academic Scene; Peter Gammond: Keep to the Path: By Order; John Hale: Dying; Robin Hallett: Landscape: Nightfall; Apotheosis; Michael Hamburger: "Consider Oedipus: how he was racked by doubt"; Barry Harmer: Foreword; Cosmogony; John Hewish: Suburban Children; Haro Hodson: "Slumber an hour. Be held"; Through Optic Glass; Caryl Wills; Denis Horne: Three Excerpts from "A King Will Die"; Elizabeth Jennings: The Elements; B. A. Killeen: Reflections; The Swan; John Larkman: Stranger; Michael Lloyd: Elegy in May; Mairi MacInnes: A Death; P. A. T. O'Donnell: Exile; Spell; J. R. Pim: Night in the City; Kenneth Robinson: Thought for Monday; William Jay Smith: The Wooing Lady; The Girl in Glass; John Taylor: The Exile; Modern Love; J. Edmund Tracey: Recollection; Joseph Irving Wardle: Two Poems from "In the City"; From "St Anthony's Cut"; Peter Weitzman: Chorus: Tempest and Flutes; William Whitmore: The Conqueror; Alpine Piece; Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Detail from "Parnassus" by Nicholas Poussin

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