Women's Poetry of the 1930s : A Critical Anthology
1996, First Edition. Florence : Taylor & Francis Group. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #445985
ISBN: 0415130964
Physical description; 192 pages. Notes; Bibliography: p188-192. Contents; Intro -- WOMEN'S POETRY OF THE 1930s A critical anthology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Valentine Ackland 1906-1969 -- Communist Poem, 1935 -- Winter -- Instructions from England 1936 -- Poem -- 'Whether a dove or a seagull lighted there' -- 'When I have said "I love you"' -- Overnight -- 'What must we do if we cannot do this-' -- 'The eyes of body' -- 'Blossom, my darling, blossom, be a rose-' -- The Lonely Woman -- Fanny Brawne's Letter Put Unopened In Keats's Coffin -- 2 Frances Bellerby 1889-1975 -- 3 Lilian Bowes Lyon 1895-1949 -- Pastoral -- Battlefield -- A Refugee -- The Blind Tramp -- A Woman Knitting -- 4 Frances Cornford 1886-1960 -- Grand Ballet -- On August the Thirteenth -- Ode on the Whole Duty of Parents -- Nurse -- A Peasant Woman -- The Single Woman -- 5 Nancy Cunard 1896-1965 -- To Eat To-day -- 6 Elizabeth Daryush 1887-1977 -- 'Children of wealth' -- Still-Life -- 'You should at times go out' -- 'It is pleasant to hang out' -- Invalid Dawn -- Off Duty -- 'If your loved one prove unworthy, why then' -- 7 Winifred Holtby 1898-1935 -- The Man Who Hated the Spring -- Trains in France -- Beauty the Lover's Gift? -- Boats in the Bay -- For the Ghost of Elinor Wylie -- Resurrection -- 8 Sylvia Lynd 1888-1952 -- The Solitary -- Beauty and the Beast -- 9 Naomi Mitchison b. 1897 -- To Some Young Communists from an Older Socialist -- Thinking of War -- Hartmanswillerkopf -- Tennessee Snow -- The Midsummer Apple Tree -- The Unfertile Heart -- Old Love and New Love -- Woman Alone -- Dick and Colin at the Salmon Nets -- 10 Ruth Pitter 1897-1992 -- Digdog -- Portrait of a Gentleman -- 1938 -- Old, Childless, Husbandless -- Maternal Love Triumphant -- 11 Kathleen Raine b. 1908 -- 12 Laura (Riding) Jackson 1901-1991 -- 13 Anne Ridler b. 1912 -- Now as Then. Prayer in a Pestilent Time -- At Christmas -- A Mile from Eden -- The Crab is In -- 14 Vita Sackville-West 1892-1962 -- Sissinghurst -- Out with a Gun -- To any M.F.H. -- Nostalgia -- September 1939 -- Absence -- Tess -- A Dream -- Spinster -- Valediction -- Extract from Solitude -- 15 E.J. Scovell b. 1907 -- Flowers -- The City Worker -- The Suicide -- A Stranger -- The Poor Mother -- Death from Cancer -- The Vain Girl Jilted -- 16 Edith Sitwell 1887-1964 -- Extract from Romance -- Prelude -- 17 Stevie Smith 1902-1971 -- A Portrait -- Portrait -- Via Media Via Dolorosa -- Sterilization -- Sigh No More -- Salon d 'Automne -- The Ballet of the Twelve Dancing Princesses -- Landrecie -- Revenge -- Two Friends -- The Word -- Marriage I Think -- The Octopus -- 18 Sylvia Townsend Warner 1893-1978 -- El Heroe -- Port Bou -- Journey to Barcelona -- Some Make This Answer -- Song for a Street Song -- Drawing You, Heavy with Sleep -- 19 Dorothy Wellesley 1889-1956 -- Mother -- The Enemy -- Avebury -- April 1939 -- 20 Anna Wickham 1884-1947 -- The Sick Assailant -- The Silent Singer -- The Dilemma -- Pilgrimage -- The Boor's Wooing -- King Alfred and the Peasant Woman -- Lament of the Red Knight -- Song of the Lonely Shepherd -- Song of Ophelia the Survivor -- The Sportsman -- Pugilist -- The Happy Mathematician -- 21 The Listener -- The Man in the Moon -- Lament in Spring -- White Valentine -- 22 Time And Tide 1920-1976 -- Continuity -- After the War -- Pity Wasted -- Last Prayer -- Woman at Home -- Bibliography. Subjects; 1900-1999. English poetry -- Women authors. English poetry -- 20th century. Women -- Poetry. English poetry 1918-1939 By women Anthologies. English poetry 20th century Collected works. English poetry Women authors Collected works. English poetry Women authors 20th century. Women poets,English 20th century. English poetry Women authors. English poetry 20th century. Women Poetry.
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