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Rachel Hadas
X.2: Well Villanelle; Thick and Thin
Paul C. Haeffner
1942-1943: Poem ("Do not fear that I am old")
J. B. S. Haldane (OCEL)
Genetecist (though at Oxford he read mathematics and then classics); Communist newspaper editor; brother of Naomi Mitchison.
1919: Complaint of the Blasphemous Bombers at Beit Alessa
Donald Hall (editor 1953) (OCTCP)
American poet. Won the Newdigate Prize 1952 for "Exile". Returned to Stanford as creative writing professor, and was poetry editor of the Paris Review, 1953-62.
1952: January 31st, 1951; September Ode; Wedding Party; A Golden Wedding
1953: Exile
Kathleen M. Hall
1942-1943: Elegy
Mickey Hall
1949: "My wells are never deep enough, it seems"; "We must be eagles, swift-pinioned thinkers"
Robin Hallett
1948: Landscape: Nightfall; Apotheosis
Michael Hamburger (OCTCP)
Translator and critic of modern European verse; poet.
1942-1943: Charles Baudelaire; The Rebels; La Vita Vecchia
1948: "Consider Oedipus: how he was racked by doubt"
V.2: The Languages of Silence: review by Karen Leeder of Paul Celan, "Selected Poems", translated Michael Hamburger
Paul Hamilton
I.3: Interview of Terry Eagleton
II.1: Timber (for Tom Paulin)
Susan Hamlyn
XI.1: The Painting Session (after Matisse)
Norman Hampson
1946:No 1: For Our Returning
Tim Hancock
VI.3: Do Not Disturb
VII.2: Eidothee
Michael Hankinson
1924: No wanton loveliness...
Maggie Hannan
IX.1: Twenty-Six Rooms: a review by Jenni Nuttall of "The Good Life, The Dirty Life, and other stories" by Adam Schwartzman and "Liar, Jones" by Maggie Hannan
Barry Harmer (editor 1948)
1948: Foreword; Cosmogony
Desmond Harmsworth
1923: Alchemy; The Diver; When All This World...
1924: Day; Smoke goeth up; The Leaves
C. R. S. Harris
Fellow of All Souls; once saved the life of A. L. Rowse by diagnosing the signs of peritonitis.
1918, as Reginald Harris: Song "My heart was blithe at morning..."; Fragment from the "Lament for Bion", of Moschus
1919: Sonnet
Ellie Harris David Harsent David Hart Henry Hart L. P. Hartley (OCEL) Phyllis Hartnoll Mercy Harvey W. J. Harvey H. C. Harwood Christopher Hassall (OCEL) J. A. Hawke-Genn Robin Hayter William Hayward Adrian Head Seamus Heaney Roger Heath John Heath-Stubbs (OCEL) (OCTCP) Malcolm Hebron Dorothy Alexander Heinlein I. L. Henderson Joy Hendry Michael Henry Nancy A. Henry Paul Henry A. P. Herbert (OCEL) Benson Herbert W. N. Herbert David Herd Mick Herron Alan Hester John Hewish Luisa Hewitt R. M. Hewitt Bertram Higgins (OCTCP) Rita Ann Higgins Peter Higgs Gilbert Highet E. E. St L. Hill Geoffrey Hill (editor 1953) (OCEL) (OCTCP) John Hilton Jack Hobbs J. C. Hobson Haro Hodson C. Gouverneur Hoffman Michael Hoffman Michael Hofmann Anthony de Hoghton Friedrich Hölderlin Christopher Hollis Christopher Holme Winifred Holtby (OCEL) Francis Hope (editor 1960) H. J. Hope Denis Horne Brian Howard M. E. Howard Herbert Howarth P. J. F. Howarth C. J. Pennethorpe Hughes John Hughes Peter Hughes Richard Hughes (editor 1921) (OCEL) Ted Hughes Nicholas Humphrey Aldous Huxley (editor 1916) (OCEL) (OCTCP) Copyright Oxford Poetry 2000. Pictured above: Sketch of W. H. Auden as a teacher at the Downs School, c. 1933
IV.3: Elimination Dancing
IX.2: I imagine her turning up on my doorstep and saying; This is the vessel
X.1: A prayer on behalf of me and Bill; Buddleia
I.2: The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill
Novelist of English social and family life.
1920: Candlemas
1922: Disparity in Despair
Won the Newdigate Prize 1929 for "Sands of Egypt".
1928: The Leaf and The Wind; 'Voici que les jardins de la Nuit vont fleurir'
1917: Song
1918: Song
1949: Elegy for Sidney Keyes
1950: De Natura Chameleonis; The Green Garden
1915: From the Youth of all Nations; The Prayer of the Virgin Mary
1916, as Cecil Harwood: February-A Bright Morning; Married; Premonitions
1917: Call of the Dead; Return
1918: Incompatibility; Dedication, of an Unwritten Masterpiece, to a Woman As Yet Unknown
Poet; biographer; librettist for Ivor Novello and William Walton.
1932: The Ego
1942-1943: The Child
X.2: Fuel for Diarists: Virginia Woolf's cuisine
1955: To the Sea; The Hills
1942-1943: The Poet
II.2: Review of his book "Station Island" by John Lanchester
V.1: Robert Frost's "Sweetest Dream": from the lecture given as Professor of Poetry on 26 October 1989; Resin; The Point
VIII.1: Two Lorries
IX.1: Judge's report on the Richard Ellmann Prize
IX.2: Critic Laureate? A Review by Terry Eagleton of "The Redress of Poetry" by Seamus Heaney
Won the Newdigate Prize 1911 for "Achilles".
1910-1913: The Crimson Box
Poet, much influenced by ancient art. Assistant editor of OP 1942-3 and co-editor, with Sidney Keyes, of "Eight Oxford Poets" (1941), the equivalent of OP in its year.
1942-1943: Tchaikowskian Poem
V.1: The Properties of Stone: a review of "Poems 1954-1987" and "The First Earthquake", by Peter Redgrove
1924: Elegy
1923: Starless Night; Smuggler's Ghost
V.3: The Flowers of Leningrad
II.3: Credit Union; Brownie Point
III.1: Taberdar's Disease
VI.2: On This Day
XI.1: Lepidopterae
VII.1: Good Morning; The Desk
VIII.1: A634 NKX
VIII.3: One Summer; Opening Up (1976)
IX.2: Burning Old Loves; Mother
Later Sir Alan. Legal humorist; war memoirist, decorated at Gallipoli, 1916 and invalided out; the last MP for Oxford University (1935-50), before Oxford and Cambridge lost the right to their own representatives in Parliament. "I suppose I have written more verse that any Briton alive"; light verse, mostly appearing in "Punch" across a period of sixty years.
1910-1913: A Fish out of Water; Yuletide Yarns
1936: Sensation on Stalling an Aeroplane
VII.1: Flesh locks; Repellant mask
VII.1: Datchie Sesames: a review by Jamie McKendrick of "The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry", ed. Douglas Dunn; "Collected Poems", by Iain Crichton Smith; and "Sharawaggi" by Robert Crawford and W. N. Herbert.
VII.3: Making Spaces: an Interview of Thomas A. Clark
I.2: A Firm Persuasion
I.3: A Small One; Bandits; The Drowning Lake; Kitchen Wood; Tonight
II.3: A Short World History (for Nick)
III.1: Lost; Line
IV.2: The operations of the heart (after Bellow)
IV.3: Distant Relations
VI.2: From "Excavations
1948: Suburban Children
1918: "You lit your cigarette from mine"; Ave Atque Vale
1918: Iter Persicum; Gaudium in Coelo
Australian modernist poet; but spent 1922-30 as a book reviewer in London.
1919, as B. Higgins: Gallipoli: An Epitaph; Eventide
1920, as B. Higgins: One Soldier
1921: White Magic
1922: Ariel; Ambition; My Brother; Truth and Reality; The Eagle
III.3: The K.K.K. of Kastle Park; Second Thoughts
1937: "The Glorious Dead"
1930: On Lord Mosenheimer's Mansion
1931: Urban Eclogue; City Children; Tennis Tournament
1917: Diffidence
1918: Parting
Poet of theological modernism, now resident in America and considered a canonical figure, but whose work was hardly read until the late 1960s. His first book, "For the Unfallen: Poems 1952-58", was followed by an Eric Gregory award in 1961.
1952: Pentecost; Saint Cuthbert on Farne Island
1953: Genesis; Merlin; The Bidden Guest; Holy Thursday
1954: In Memory of Jane Fraser; An Ark on the Flood; Prospero and Ariel; Gideon at the Well
I.2: Article "The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill" by Henry Hart
1929: Nonsense Song; Nonsense Fragment; The Deserted Astronomer; Cogito ergo morior
Not, alas, the England cricketer of the same name.
1949: River; Napoleonism
Killed in action near St Julien, Belgium, 31 July 1917.
1914: Winter
1948: "Slumber an hour. Be held"; Through Optic Glass; Caryl Wills
1916: Meditation on the Berkshire Downs; The Answer; The Seer
X.2: Circular Letter, beginning the Rainer Maria Rilke Translation Seminar
X.2: Hand-Inside (transliteration of "Handinneres" by Rainer Maria Rilke), with notes; Abishag (transliteration of "Abisag" by Rainer Maria Rilke), with notes
III.1: Withdrawn from Circulation
1946:No 1: The Country Wife; Poem "The daffodils are dead, the murderous summer"
V.3: A Life Revisited: a review by Karen Leeder of Friedrich Hölderlin, "Selected Poems", translated by David Constantine
VI.1: Hope ['An Die Hofnung', translated by Tim Turner and Martyn Crucefix]
Conservative MP; memoirist of "Oxford in the Twenties", i.e., of Evelyn Waugh, Harold Acton and their set.
1923, as M. C. Hollis: Epitaphs
1928: Sebastian; Song, From _The Mermaid Tavern_
1929, as H. Christopher Holme: Marine Humours; Lost Illusions
1930: In a Seaside Town
Novelist; feminist; close friend of Vera Brittain and, like her, served in France during the war.
1920: The Dead Man
1919: The Patrol; The Monk's Fancy; An Alpine Picture
1948: Three Excerpts from "A King Will Die"
Oxford contemporaries record Howard as a considerable talent dissipating itself in party-going; after bohemian wanderings, took his own life in remorse for the accidental death of his latest lover. His biography is subtitled "Portrait of a Failure". Both of Howard's OP poems compare sounds to the rubbing together of biscuits.
1924: Scenic Railway; Panorama seen by the young American woman sleeping
VI.1: Tourists in the Harz, Summer 1990
1937: New Year; Individual Despair; Interlude
1936: The Year's Harvest; Fortune
1928: Eccentric
II.2: Double Indemnity
V.2: The Ballycastle Seraph
VI.2: Murder: American Style
V.1: Coach Poem
Novelist and playwright; author of the first radio play ever broadcast ("Danger"; BBC, 1924).
1920, as R. W. Hughes: The Rolling Saint; The Song of Proud James
1921: Preface; Singing Furies; The Sermon; Tramp; Gratitude; Judy; Ruin
1922: Gaza; Isaac Ball; The Jumping Bean
X.1: Governing a Life: a review by Tim Kendall of "Birthday Letters" by Ted Hughes
VIII.1: The Playing Boys (after Giulio Romano); Mister Rude; "What is this-"
VIII.1: Fragment 356 [a parody of literary annotation]
Half-satirical novelist, best known for "Brave New World" (1932). His Mallarmé translation was written over winter 1917 while staying at Lady Ottoline Morrell's country house at Garsington.
1915, as A. L. Huxley: Home-Sickness... From the Town
1916, as A. L. Huxley: Mole; The Picture Shop; The Wheel
1917, as A. L. Huxley: L'Après-Midi d'un Faune (From the French of Stéphane Mallarmé)
1918: Two Songs; Song of Poplars