J. Redwood Anderson

John Redwood Anderson (1883 – 1964) was an English poet.

Life

Anderson was born in Manchester and educated at Trinity College, Oxford. After travelling, he settled as a teacher in Kingston-upon-Hull ["A master at Hymers College for many years", Philip Larkin, "Selected Letters" (1992), edited by Anthony Thwaite, p. 555.] .

His play "Babel" (later "The Tower to Heaven") was produced on a number of occasions [ [http://www.kent.ac.uk/sdfva/invisibleplay/Body/appendix1924plays.html] in 1924.] [At the Mercury Theatre, London in 1936 [http://www.collectorspost.com/Theatre/Books_Plays/000501.html] .] , and was published by the Oxford University Press.

Works

*"The Music of Death" (1904)
*"The Legend of Eros and Psyche" (1908)
*"The Mask" (1912)
*"Flemish Tales" (1913)
*"Walls and Hedges" (1919)
*"Haunted Islands" (1923/4)
*"Babel" (1927) verse drama
*"The Vortex" (1928)
*"Standing Waters" (1929)
*"Transvaluations" (1932)
*"The Human Dawn" (1934)
*"English Fantasies" (1935)
*"The Curlew Cries" (1940)
*"Approach" (1946)
*"The Fugue of Time" (1946)
*"Paris Symphony" (1947)
*"An Ascent" (1947)
*"Pillars to Remembrance" (1948)
*"Almanac" (1956) [http://www.lostbooks.net/cgi-bin/lbn455/30877.html?id=hI6A8YGN]
*"While Fates Allow" (1962)
*"Poems of the Evening" (1971)

References

*"Poems of Today", Third Series, compiled by the English Association (1938), p. xxi

External links

* [http://www.idedrich.co.uk/Collections/J%20Redwood%20Anderson/Anderson,%20JR.htm Second-hand titles]

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