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

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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

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  • 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

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Notes

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  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. ^ [1] in 1924.
  4. ^ At the Mercury Theatre, London in 1936 [2].
  5. ^ Day, Pauline. "Historic Houses In Sible Hedingham". siblehedingham.com. Archived from the original on 11 May 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
  6. ^ "Death of Poet". Birmingham Post. No. 32893. 30 March 1964. p. 22. Retrieved 17 February 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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