Oxford Poetry: Index of Contributors: A

Index of Contributors: A

Alphabetical index to contributors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ

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Harold Acton (editor 1924) (OCEL)
Poet, arch-aesthete, memoirist, China hand; later Sir Harold. Like W. H. Auden he attracted a circle of undergraduates, not least for reciting "The Waste Land" with a megaphone at a garden party in Worcester College. His editorial partnership with Peter Quennell was stormy (see issue entry for OP 1924). Though OP 1925 was dedicated to him, "beloved and magnanimous duce of poets", Acton afterwards felt neglected: "my successors, Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis and McNeice [sic] ... regarded me as a minor versifier since I lacked a political message. They forgot that I had prepared the soil for them in Oxford Poetry...". An alternative view is that they regarded him a minor versifier because he was one, and that Auden would have flourished in any soil living or dead, but Acton has a point. "Pensile", incidentally, means "hanging".
1923: The Pensile Gardens of Babylon; A Morality, or the Twelve Forces of Nature Explained; When Frigates from Long Voyages
1924: Lament for Adonis; Words; Trépak
1925: Hilarity; In the Month of Athyr; The Prodigal Son

Fleur Adcock
II.3: Drawings
III.3: Interview by Sarah Dence and Mark Wormald(2)
III.3: Simple Rhymes [translated from the Romanian of Daniela Crasnaru]; In The Town Of Once-Upon-A-Time [translated from the Romanian of Liliana Ursu]

Monizha Ahmad
VIII.3: Surmadani; Nani Praying

Richard Aldridge
1956: An Apology Both Ways; Weeping Willow

M. J. Alexander
V.2: Fish in the River [Exeter Book Riddle 85; winning entry in the Translation Competition]

R. N. Allan
IV.1: Katabasis; Ham Actor

George Allen
1928, as G. C. Allen: Late Afternoon
1929, as G. C. Allen: Lighting-up Time
1930: Title Piece
1931: Mons Mortalis

Drummond Allison (OCTCP)
Killed in action in Italy, December 1943: his collected poems appeared in 1978. (OC)
1942-1943: The Gardener Rises Restive; The Brass Horse

Anonymous = V. M. Allom
Friend of W. H. Auden's at Christ Church. Resisting all cajolery he refused to allow his name to appear, for no very evident reason.
1927: An Ornithological View of Existence

Kenneth Allott (OCTCP)
Poet; later, Matthew Arnold scholar. At Oxford editor of "Programme"; on leaving, in 1936, became deputy editor (to Geoffrey Grigson) of "New Verse", vitriolic magazine of the MacSpaunday set.
1936: The Albatross

Paul Almond
1950: Beach

A. Alvarez (OCTCP)
Critic, esp. associated with Hughes and Plath, and anthologist of European poetry.
1951: Truth and Fiction; Literary Scene
1952: The Marksmen; The Bacchae
1953: Poetic Licence; Meditation on a Critical Point

Moniza Alvi
VII.3: Arrivals: a review by Sandie Byrne of "The Country at my Shoulder" by Moniza Alvi and "Kissing the Night" by Christine McNeill

Hossein Amini
III.1: Gaugin Enchantée

Kingsley Amis (editor 1949) (OCEL) (OCTCP)
Later Sir Kingsley. Novelist and poet; see also the issue entries for OP 1947 and 1949.
1948: "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"
1949: Foreword; Backgrounds

Scott Anderson
VII.2: Circus

H. M. Andrews
1919: Song

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke
I.3: When The Body [translation of Giovanni Voulgari]

Anon. (Balliol)
1910-1913: Advice to Scholars

Anon. (Ignot.)
Satire on the leading figures of the then Liberal government, predicting (correctly) that Churchill will sail away on his Admiralty steam-yacht.
1910-1913: G. W. L. T.

Anon. (Non-Coll.)
1918: By Proxy

Guillaume Apollinaire
II.2: Blow-out [translated by Gavin Ewart: winner of the Translation Competition]; Festival [translated by Adrian Clarke: second prize in the Translation Competition]

Liz Arden
IV.2: Hoards
IV.3: Journey to Croagh Patrick

W. J. Arkell
1925: Under a Wiltshire Hedge

Simon Armitage
X.1: Interview

T. H. W. Armstrong
1919: Heritage; Watching; Loneliness

Audrey M. Arnold
1946:No 2: Marine

Richard Arnold
I.3: My First Volcano
II.1: Two Faces; Ocean Floor Mining, or, The Lobster and the Mermaid

L. J. Arundel
1948: T. E. Lawrence

John Ashbery
I.3: Article "The Poetry of John Ashbery" by Paul Giles
VI.2: Speaking in Tongues: an Interview of Caroline Blyth

Phoebe Ashburner
1929: Loneliness; Canoe
1930: To a Queen's Statue
1931: Physics and Chemistry; Cuckoo; Pyramid

Anthony Asquith
Youngest son of H. H. Asquith and so the only OP contributor to have lived at 10 Downing Street. At Oxford a film enthusiast; his nickname was "Puffin". Became a pioneering director, collaborating with Shaw and Rattigan in helping to form the idea of British film. Legendarily modest and considerate.
1923: Joan of Arc

Neil Astley
V.2: An Interview

W. H. Auden (editor 1926, 1927) (OCEL) (OCTCP)
Poet; elected Oxford Professor of Poetry, 1956-60. For Auden's editing, see the issue entries; or see Humphrey Carpenter, "W. H. Auden: A Biography", chapter 4. "Thomas Epilogises" evolved from an earlier poem, "Thomas Prologizes", published in the Oxford Magazine, 3 May 1928: see Katherine Bucknell's edition of Auden's 1922-8 juvenilia for annotated texts of all the OP contributions. "Thomas" is in imitation of Eliot and contains what Auden later said were his worst lines of verse, which would have made an ideal caption for a Thurber cartoon: "Isobel, who with her leaping breasts | Pursued me through a summer". Perhaps this is why "Isis", reviewing the volume, said that: "Through about seventy lines Mr Auden continues to show his inability to appreciate the meaning of words."
1926: Preface; Thomas Epilogises [for C. I.]; The Letter; Cinders
1927: Preface; Extract
1928: In Due Season
I.3: Ten unpublished poems (1927-1928), edited and introduced by Nicholas Jenkins
II.3: Paris [a sonnet written in 1938]
XI.1: The Sphinx [81-line draft, 1938]; The Sphinx [published sonnet]
XI.1: Auden's Lawrentian Sphinx: an introduction by John Fuller

Annemarie Austin
II.3: Misericord
X.2: Salvage



			Index of Contributors: A Alphabetical index to contributors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ Back to the index to the index * Forward to letter B * Home Harold Acton (editor 1924) (OCEL) Poet, arch-aesthete, memoirist, China hand; later Sir Harold. Like W. H. Auden he attracted a circle of undergraduates, not least for reciting "The Waste Land" with a megaphone at a garden party in Worcester College. His editorial partnership with Peter Quennell was stormy (see issue entry for OP 1924). Though OP 1925 was dedicated to him, "beloved and magnanimous duce of poets", Acton afterwards felt neglected: "my successors, Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis and McNeice [sic] ... regarded me as a minor versifier since I lacked a political message. They forgot that I had prepared the soil for them in Oxford Poetry...". An alternative view is that they regarded him a minor versifier because he was one, and that Auden would have flourished in any soil living or dead, but Acton has a point. "Pensile", incidentally, means "hanging". 1923: The Pensile Gardens of Babylon; A Morality, or the Twelve Forces of Nature Explained; When Frigates from Long Voyages 1924: Lament for Adonis; Words; Trépak 1925: Hilarity; In the Month of Athyr; The Prodigal Son Fleur Adcock II.3: Drawings III.3: Interview by Sarah Dence and Mark Wormald(2) III.3: Simple Rhymes [translated from the Romanian of Daniela Crasnaru]; In The Town Of Once-Upon-A-Time [translated from the Romanian of Liliana Ursu] Monizha Ahmad VIII.3: Surmadani; Nani Praying Richard Aldridge 1956: An Apology Both Ways; Weeping Willow M. J. Alexander V.2: Fish in the River [Exeter Book Riddle 85; winning entry in the Translation Competition] R. N. Allan IV.1: Katabasis; Ham Actor George Allen 1928, as G. C. Allen: Late Afternoon 1929, as G. C. Allen: Lighting-up Time 1930: Title Piece 1931: Mons Mortalis Drummond Allison (OCTCP) Killed in action in Italy, December 1943: his collected poems appeared in 1978. (OC) 1942-1943: The Gardener Rises Restive; The Brass Horse Anonymous = V. M. Allom Friend of W. H. Auden's at Christ Church. Resisting all cajolery he refused to allow his name to appear, for no very evident reason. 1927: An Ornithological View of Existence Kenneth Allott (OCTCP) Poet; later, Matthew Arnold scholar. At Oxford editor of "Programme"; on leaving, in 1936, became deputy editor (to Geoffrey Grigson) of "New Verse", vitriolic magazine of the MacSpaunday set. 1936: The Albatross Paul Almond 1950: Beach A. Alvarez (OCTCP) Critic, esp. associated with Hughes and Plath, and anthologist of European poetry. 1951: Truth and Fiction; Literary Scene 1952: The Marksmen; The Bacchae 1953: Poetic Licence; Meditation on a Critical Point Moniza Alvi VII.3: Arrivals: a review by Sandie Byrne of "The Country at my Shoulder" by Moniza Alvi and "Kissing the Night" by Christine McNeill Hossein Amini III.1: Gaugin Enchantée Kingsley Amis (editor 1949) (OCEL) (OCTCP) Later Sir Kingsley. Novelist and poet; see also the issue entries for OP 1947 and 1949. 1948: "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" 1949: Foreword; Backgrounds Scott Anderson VII.2: Circus H. M. Andrews 1919: Song Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke I.3: When The Body [translation of Giovanni Voulgari] Anon. (Balliol) 1910-1913: Advice to Scholars Anon. (Ignot.) Satire on the leading figures of the then Liberal government, predicting (correctly) that Churchill will sail away on his Admiralty steam-yacht. 1910-1913: G. W. L. T. Anon. (Non-Coll.) 1918: By Proxy Guillaume Apollinaire II.2: Blow-out [translated by Gavin Ewart: winner of the Translation Competition]; Festival [translated by Adrian Clarke: second prize in the Translation Competition] Liz Arden IV.2: Hoards IV.3: Journey to Croagh Patrick W. J. Arkell 1925: Under a Wiltshire Hedge Simon Armitage X.1: Interview T. H. W. Armstrong 1919: Heritage; Watching; Loneliness Audrey M. Arnold 1946:No 2: Marine Richard Arnold I.3: My First Volcano II.1: Two Faces; Ocean Floor Mining, or, The Lobster and the Mermaid L. J. Arundel 1948: T. E. Lawrence John Ashbery I.3: Article "The Poetry of John Ashbery" by Paul Giles VI.2: Speaking in Tongues: an Interview of Caroline Blyth Phoebe Ashburner 1929: Loneliness; Canoe 1930: To a Queen's Statue 1931: Physics and Chemistry; Cuckoo; Pyramid Anthony Asquith Youngest son of H. H. Asquith and so the only OP contributor to have lived at 10 Downing Street. At Oxford a film enthusiast; his nickname was "Puffin". Became a pioneering director, collaborating with Shaw and Rattigan in helping to form the idea of British film. Legendarily modest and considerate. 1923: Joan of Arc Neil Astley V.2: An Interview W. H. Auden (editor 1926, 1927) (OCEL) (OCTCP) Poet; elected Oxford Professor of Poetry, 1956-60. For Auden's editing, see the issue entries; or see Humphrey Carpenter, "W. H. Auden: A Biography", chapter 4. "Thomas Epilogises" evolved from an earlier poem, "Thomas Prologizes", published in the Oxford Magazine, 3 May 1928: see Katherine Bucknell's edition of Auden's 1922-8 juvenilia for annotated texts of all the OP contributions. "Thomas" is in imitation of Eliot and contains what Auden later said were his worst lines of verse, which would have made an ideal caption for a Thurber cartoon: "Isobel, who with her leaping breasts \| Pursued me through a summer". Perhaps this is why "Isis", reviewing the volume, said that: "Through about seventy lines Mr Auden continues to show his inability to appreciate the meaning of words." 1926: Preface; Thomas Epilogises [for C. I.]; The Letter; Cinders 1927: Preface; Extract 1928: In Due Season I.3: Ten unpublished poems (1927-1928), edited and introduced by Nicholas Jenkins II.3: Paris [a sonnet written in 1938] XI.1: The Sphinx [81-line draft, 1938]; The Sphinx [published sonnet] XI.1: Auden's Lawrentian Sphinx: an introduction by John Fuller Annemarie Austin II.3: Misericord X.2: Salvage Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Sketch of W. H. Auden as a teacher at the Downs School, c. 1933