J. Redwood Anderson

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

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]

His 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.)

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)
• 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

• Second-hand titles

Notes

1. Poems of Today, third series (1938), p. xxi..
2. A master at Hymers College for many years, Philip Larkin, Selected Letters (1992), edited by Anthony Thwaite, p. 555.
3. in 1924.
4. At the Mercury Theatre, London in 1936 .