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
[edit]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 staged several times,[3][4] and published by Ernest Benn in 1927. It reappeared in 1936 in a revised stage version as The Tower to Heaven by the Oxford University Press.
In 1953 his wife, Gwyneth's aunt Rachel Barrett died. She had been a leading suffragette and left her Essex home, Lamb Cottage in Sible Hedingham, to her niece.[5]
Anderson died at his home in Sible Hedingham on 29 March 1964; he was 81.[6]
Works
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Poems of Today, Third Series, compiled by the English Association (1938), p. xxi
External links
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Notes
[edit]- ^ 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].
- ^ Day, Pauline. "Historic Houses In Sible Hedingham". siblehedingham.com. Archived from the original on 11 May 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- ^ "Death of Poet". Birmingham Post. No. 32893. 30 March 1964. p. 22. Retrieved 17 February 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
