Oxford Poetry 1917-1921 (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Wartime and Postwar English Verse from Oxford's Student Poets, Georgian Lyric to Early ModernismBy Various Authors
Length5h
About this audiobook
Oxford Poetry 1917-1921 gathers five wartime and immediate postwar annuals into a revealing record of English verse at a moment of cultural fracture. Its poems move between pastoral lyric, elegy, devotional meditation, satire, and early modernist compression, often retaining Georgian music while registering the harsher tonalities produced by mechanized war and social disillusion. As a literary document, it captures Oxford not as an ivory-tower abstraction but as a sensitive instrument responding to bereavement, national crisis, and aesthetic transition. The "author" is necessarily collective: students, recent graduates, and young writers associated with Oxford, writing under the shadow of the First World War and its aftermath. Their varied backgrounds—academic, military, aristocratic, provincial, and cosmopolitan—help explain the anthology's range of voices. The volume's significance lies precisely in this plurality, preserving poems shaped by youth, education, loss, ambition, and the pressure to find new forms adequate to a changed world. This collection is recommended for readers interested in war literature, university writing, and the passage from late Victorian and Georgian poetics toward modernism. It rewards both historical and aesthetic attention.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- An Introduction draws the threads together, discussing why these diverse authors and texts belong in one collection.
- Historical Context explores the cultural and intellectual currents that shaped these works, offering insight into the shared (or contrasting) eras that influenced each writer.
- A combined Synopsis (Selection) briefly outlines the key plots or arguments of the included pieces, helping readers grasp the anthology's overall scope without giving away essential twists.
- A collective Analysis highlights common themes, stylistic variations, and significant crossovers in tone and technique, tying together writers from different backgrounds.
- Reflection questions encourage readers to compare the different voices and perspectives within the collection, fostering a richer understanding of the overarching conversation.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length5 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 8, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Oxford Poetry 1917-1921 (Annotated)
26ROBERT GRAVES (ST. JOHN'S)
2Introduction
27DEAD COW FARM
3Historical Context
28RUSSELL GREEN (QUEEN'S)
4Synopsis (Selection)
29MERCY HARVEY (ST. HILDA'S)
5Oxford Poetry, 1917
30H. C. HARWOOD (BALLIOL)
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6P. BLOOMFIELD (BALLIOL)
31RETURN
7M. ST. CLARE BYRNE (SOMERVILLE)
32E. E. ST. L. HILL (KEBLE)
8J. E. A. CARVER (MAGDALEN)
33A. L. HUXLEY (BALLIOL)
9EUGENE PARKER CHASE (MAGDALEN)
34C. R. JURY (MAGDALEN)
10W. R. CHILDE (MAGDALEN)
35SONNET
11THE GOTHIC ROSE
36CHAMAN LALL (JESUS)
12GERALD H. CROW (HERTFORD)
37M. LEIGH (SOMERVILLE)
13DESIDERIO DESIDERAVI
38E. H. W. MEYERSTEIN (MAGDALEN)
14HUMILITY
39LONDON
15D. N. DALGLISH (ST. HILDA'S)
40EVAN MORGAN (CHRIST CHURCH)
16E. C. DICKINSON (NON-COLL.)
41A SERENADE
17RIVER SONG
42F. ST. V. MORRIS (WADHAM)
18E. R. DODDS (UNIVERSITY)
43ROBERT NICHOLS (TRINITY)
19C. J. DRUCE (NON-COLL.)
44ELIZABETH RENDALL (HOME STUDENT)
20T. W. EARP (EXETER)
45D. L. SAYERS (SOMERVILLE)
21SOLITUDE
46H. SIMPSON (HOME-STUDENT)
22U. ELLIS-FERMOR (SOMERVILLE)
47E. E. SMITH (UNIVERSITY)
23JOAN EVANS (ST. HUGH'S)
48L. A. G. STRONG (WADHAM)
24FLORA FORSTER (SOMERVILLE)
49THE BAIT-DIGGER'S SON
25L. GIELGUD (MAGDALEN)
50D. E. A. WALLACE (SOMERVILLE)
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