Oxford Poetry 1953

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 Fantasy Press 50pp
edited by Donald Hall, Geoffrey Hill
no preface

The first volume published by the Fantasy Press of Eynsham, which was already publishing a pamphlet series ("The Fantasy Poets") in collaboration with the University poetry society. In a dignified dark red, with a lyre design as logo.


Contents

A. Alvarez: Poetic Licence; Meditation on a Critical Point;

Alan Brownjohn: Wolfgang Borchert; Death in the Park;

Don Collis: Metaphysical Conceit...;

Alistair Elliot: The Old Blind Man; Some Talk to You of Her; Epidaurus, 1952; Poem; Words with no Music;

Donald Hall: Exile;

Geoffrey Hill: Genesis; Merlin; The Bidden Guest; Holy Thursday;

Jenny Joseph: The New Church, Osney Lock; The Bridge;

J. E. M. Lucie-Smith: The Temptation of St. Anthony; Icarus;

George MacBeth: Rhubarb; Thoughts on Choosing;

John Mallet: Men of Bone;

Adrian Mitchell: Franz Kafka; The Sentence;

Jonathan Price: The Bone Flute; Psyche - A Reflection;

John Reed: Ballad of the Forbidden Fruit;

E. Margaret Strahan: Mourne; Autumn;

Anthony Thwaite: The Fallen City; Landscapes; Music by Water; Requiem;


Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Detail from "Parnassus" by Nicholas Poussin