Oxford Poetry: Oxford Poetry 1919

Oxford Poetry 1919

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 60pp
edited by T. W. E. [T. W. Earp], D. L. S. [Dorothy L. Sayers] and S. S. [identity unknown]
no preface

"S. S." is probably not Siegfried Sassoon, who was then a young Fleet Street literary editor: but it is hard to think of anybody else. A letter, C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (2 June 1919), mentions that "the extreme literary set at Balliol and Exeter [Colleges], the writers of 'vers libre' etc., who run the yearly Book of Oxford Poetry had got the book [i.e. of Lewis's own poems] and... on Wednesday I am to meet at Hartman's rooms a man called Childe." It is hard to think of anyone less likely given to vers libre than Wilfred Rowland Childe, but interesting that Childe seems still to have been involved in editing, if peripherally: perhaps S. S. refers to him? Lewis evidently failed the interview: none of his poems were included, then or ever.

H. M. Andrews: Song;

T. H. W. Armstrong: Heritage; Watching; Loneliness;

P. Bloomfield: Twilight;

Vera M. Brittain: To a V. C.;

H. T. Burt: From their Dust; Pilot and Clouds;

F. W. Butler-Thwing: The Tramp-Ship;

Eugene Parker Chase, as E. P. Chase: Seven Mists; "I am clothed with furtive light";

Wilfred Rowland Childe, as W. R. Childe: Les Hallucinés;

E. A. C. Clarke: Flowers;

L. M. Cooper: Lines for a Flyleaf of Herodotus; Crusoe was a Vagabond;

Eric Dickinson: The Garden;

B. Edwards: The Man Who Has Forgotten Time; In a Canoe (Oxford);

Ralph W. W. Fox: Love Weeping Among the Crosses; On Hearing that the Names Carved on an Old School Table are to be Removed; The Envious Poets;

J. B. S. Haldane: Complaint of the Blasphemous Bombers at Beit Alessa;

C. R. S. Harris: Sonnet;

Bertram Higgins, as B. Higgins: Gallipoli: An Epitaph; Eventide;

H. J. Hope: The Patrol; The Monk's Fancy; An Alpine Picture;

G. H. Johnstone, as G. H. Johnston: Oxford in May;

C. H. B. Kitchin: Somme Film, 1916; Eschatological Sonnet; Epilogue; "Ruler of infinite austerity";

John Langdon-Davies: Quits!;

P. H. B. Lyon: The Secret Playroom (Graudenz, 1918); The Song of Strength; The Deserted Garden;

G. A. Mostyn: Les Misérables;

A. S. Mott: Umbra;

K. Mounsey: To a Little House in Oxford;

R. M. S. Pasley: The Diver;

V. de S. Pinto: Station; Swans;

Hilda Reid, as H. S. Reid: A Dream;

Elizabeth Rendall, as E. Rendall: Epitaph (For Julia);

Dorothy L. Sayers, as D. L. Sayers: For Phaon (With "That Eternitie Promised by Our Ever-Living Poet"); Sympathy; Vials Full of Odours;

W. Force Stead: The Voice in the Night (Songs from a Lyrical Drama, "The Burden of Babylon");

L. A. G. Strong: At Punnet's Town; Dallington; Eena-Mena-Mina-Mo;

D. E. A. Wallace: Impromptu in Marsh; In New College Cloisters; The Beggar-Maiden;

J. L. Wing: Louis Onze;



			Oxford Poetry 1919 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 1918 * Forward to Oxford Poetry 1920 * Home Published by Blackwell's 60pp edited by T. W. E. [T. W. Earp], D. L. S. [Dorothy L. Sayers] and S. S. [identity unknown] no preface "S. S." is probably not Siegfried Sassoon, who was then a young Fleet Street literary editor: but it is hard to think of anybody else. A letter, C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (2 June 1919), mentions that "the extreme literary set at Balliol and Exeter [Colleges], the writers of 'vers libre' etc., who run the yearly Book of Oxford Poetry had got the book [i.e. of Lewis's own poems] and... on Wednesday I am to meet at Hartman's rooms a man called Childe." It is hard to think of anyone less likely given to vers libre than Wilfred Rowland Childe, but interesting that Childe seems still to have been involved in editing, if peripherally: perhaps S. S. refers to him? Lewis evidently failed the interview: none of his poems were included, then or ever. Contents H. M. Andrews: Song; T. H. W. Armstrong: Heritage; Watching; Loneliness; P. Bloomfield: Twilight; Vera M. Brittain: To a V. C.; H. T. Burt: From their Dust; Pilot and Clouds; F. W. Butler-Thwing: The Tramp-Ship; Eugene Parker Chase, as E. P. Chase: Seven Mists; "I am clothed with furtive light"; Wilfred Rowland Childe, as W. R. Childe: Les Hallucinés; E. A. C. Clarke: Flowers; L. M. Cooper: Lines for a Flyleaf of Herodotus; Crusoe was a Vagabond; Eric Dickinson: The Garden; B. Edwards: The Man Who Has Forgotten Time; In a Canoe (Oxford); Ralph W. W. Fox: Love Weeping Among the Crosses; On Hearing that the Names Carved on an Old School Table are to be Removed; The Envious Poets; J. B. S. Haldane: Complaint of the Blasphemous Bombers at Beit Alessa; C. R. S. Harris: Sonnet; Bertram Higgins, as B. Higgins: Gallipoli: An Epitaph; Eventide; H. J. Hope: The Patrol; The Monk's Fancy; An Alpine Picture; G. H. Johnstone, as G. H. Johnston: Oxford in May; C. H. B. Kitchin: Somme Film, 1916; Eschatological Sonnet; Epilogue; "Ruler of infinite austerity"; John Langdon-Davies: Quits!; P. H. B. Lyon: The Secret Playroom (Graudenz, 1918); The Song of Strength; The Deserted Garden; G. A. Mostyn: Les Misérables; A. S. Mott: Umbra; K. Mounsey: To a Little House in Oxford; R. M. S. Pasley: The Diver; V. de S. Pinto: Station; Swans; Hilda Reid, as H. S. Reid: A Dream; Elizabeth Rendall, as E. Rendall: Epitaph (For Julia); Dorothy L. Sayers, as D. L. Sayers: For Phaon (With "That Eternitie Promised by Our Ever-Living Poet"); Sympathy; Vials Full of Odours; W. Force Stead: The Voice in the Night (Songs from a Lyrical Drama, "The Burden of Babylon"); L. A. G. Strong: At Punnet's Town; Dallington; Eena-Mena-Mina-Mo; D. E. A. Wallace: Impromptu in Marsh; In New College Cloisters; The Beggar-Maiden; J. L. Wing: Louis Onze; Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Detail from "Parnassus" by Nicholas Poussin

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