J. Redwood Anderson
John Redwood Anderson (1883–29 March 1964) was an English poet and playwright. His play Babel was staged on several occasions.
Life[]
Anderson was born in Salford and educated at home and at Trinity College, Oxford. After travelling, he settled as a teacher in Kingston-upon-Hull.[1][2]
Anderson's play Babel was produced on a number of occasions,[3][4] and was published by Ernest Benn in 1927. It was re-published in 1936 in a revised version for the stage as The Tower to Heaven by the Oxford University Press.
Anderson died at his home in Sible Hedingham, Essex on 29 March 1964; he was 81.[5]
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) (poetry - pamphlet)
- Transvaluations (1932)
- The Human Dawn (1934)
- English Fantasies (1935)
- The Tower to Heaven (1936)
- The Curlew Cries (1940)
- The Principle of Uniformity in English Metre (1941) (criticism - pamphlet)
- Approach (1946)
- The Fugue of Time (1946)
- Paris Symphony (1947)
- An Ascent (1947)
- Pillars to Remembrance (1948)
- Almanac (1956) [3]
- 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[]
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Notes[]
- ^ Poems of Today, third series (1938), p. xxi..
- ^ A master at Hymers College for many years, Philip Larkin, Selected Letters (1992), edited by Anthony Thwaite, p. 555.
- ^ [1] in 1924.
- ^ At the Mercury Theatre, London in 1936 [2].
- ^ "Death of Poet". Birmingham Post (32893). 30 March 1964. p. 22. Retrieved 17 February 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Categories:
- 1883 births
- 1964 deaths
- Writers from Manchester
- English male poets
- 20th-century English poets
- People from Salford
- Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
- People from Kingston upon Hull
- 20th-century English male writers