Oxford Poetry Vol XI No 1: Auden, Spender and MacNeice (Spring 2000)

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 Magdalen College 88pp
edited by Graham Nelson, Jane Griffiths with Jenni Nuttall
with Introduction and Acknowledgements; notes on contributors; and a lengthy copyright declaration.

This ninetieth birthday issue was published on 26 April 2000 and is now available.


Contents

John Fuller: Auden's Lawrentian Sphinx;

W. H. Auden: The Sphinx [81-line draft, 1938]; The Sphinx [published sonnet];

Natasha Spender: Introduction to "Instead of Death" by Stephen Spender;

Stephen Spender: Chapter X of "Instead of Death" [1928 novel];

Jon Stallworthy: Introduction to "Blacklegs" by Louis MacNeice;

Louis MacNeice: Blacklegs: a play [1939];

Graham Nelson: "It lies obscure in layers of dark": Louis MacNeice's buried translations of Greek tragedy;

Louis MacNeice: The Hippolytus of Euripides [part of a 1939 verse translation];

Kate Clanchy: A Finn Defends His Language;

Robin Waterfield: Unicorn;

Peter Loney: from Homage to A. E. Housman;

Peter Scupham: Kilvert's Winter: 1871;

Hsien Min Toh: The Freight Office in Hatyai Station;

Jenni Nuttall: Night Houses;

Peter Carpenter: The Royal Scam;

Dan Wyke: Tying Knots;

Kate Scott: Mute on Light;

Eve Kimber: Fluffy lambs | cold frog;

Nancy A. Henry: Lepidopterae;

Susan Hamlyn: The Painting Session (after Matisse);

David Constantine: New Year Behind the Asylum; The Hoist;


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