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The Criterion
The Criterion was a British literary magazine. It was created by the poet, dramatist, and literary critic T. S. Eliot who served as its editor for its entire run. -
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1926 - 1950 - poetry timeline
1926 - 1950 - poetry timeline about poetry fro 1926 to 1950 years in Britain. -
"Nine Experiments" by Stephen Spender
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"The Tower" by William Butler Yeats
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Death of Thomas Hardy
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"Blind Fireworks" by Louis MacNeice
Considered by Louis MacNeice himself to be juvenilia. -
"Poems" by Wystan Hugh Auden
T. S. Eliot published Auden's "Poems" in the literary magazine The Criterion after turning down publishing his poems several times. -
"Twenty Poems" by Stephen Spender
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"The Winding Stair and Other Poems " by William Butler Yeats
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"And death shall have no dominion" by Dylan Marlais Thomas
The title is inspired by St. Paul's epistle to the Romans (6:9). -
"Vienna" by Stephen Spender
Spender was an English poet whose work concentrated on social injustice and class struggle. -
"Choice or Chance" by Edmund Blunden
Collection of poetry. -
"The Poet’s Tongue" by Wystan Hugh Auden
A book written in verse. Here Auden defined poetry as "memorable speech". -
"Letter to Lord Byron" by Wystan Hugh Auden
In this poem Auden describes the moment when he realised he should become a poet. Auden was also one of the members of the Oxford Group. -
"Spain, 1937" by Wystan Hugh Auden
This poem draws on the experiences of the Spanish Civil War. -
"A Good Time Was Had By All" by Stevie Smith
Smith's poetry is very dark and as the characters are continuously saying good-bye to their friends and welcoming death. -
"This Englishwoman" by Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith was an English feminist. -
"Tender Only to One" by Stevie Smith
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"The Earth Compels" by Louis MacNeice
Jon Stallworthy gives the following summary of The Earth Compels: "The book offers an impressionistic picture of a journey from brightness, 'The Sunlight on the Garden', towards darkness; from Carrickfergus to Iceland and the Hebrides; from peace - by way of one World War - into the advancing shadows of another." (Wikipedia) -
"Practical Cats" by Thomas Stearns Eliot
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"September 1, 1939" by Wystan Hugh Auden
This poem marks the outbreak of the WWI during which Auden spent majority of his time in America. On this poem Auden described 1930s as "a low dishonest decade". -
"In Memory of W. B. Yeats" by Wystan Hugh Auden
Many of Auden's lines have passed into common culture. For example: poetry makes nothing happen. -
"The Still Centre" by Stephen Spender
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"Last Poems and Plays" by William Butler Yeats
Released posthumously. -
"Mother, What Is Man?" by Stevie Smith
Through her life, Smith was an active feminist. -
"Ruins and Visions" by Stephen Spender
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"Four Quartets" by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Modernism, a suite of poems structured in emulation of the music of Bach. -
"Prayer Before Birth" by Louis MacNeice
This poem criticises WWII for the pain it has caused the world, and the tyranny. It was written at the height of WWII. -
"Shells by a Stream" by Edmund Blunden
Collection of poetry. -
"The North Ship" by Philip Larkin
Influenced by W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, and Thomas Hardy, his poems are highly structured but flexible verse forms. (Wikipedia) -
"The Double Image" by Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov is an Essex born politician, feminist and poetry editor for The Nation. -
"Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Marlais Thomas
The most famous work by Thomas that has been used widely in popular culture. Although it was written in 1947, it wasn't published until 1951. -
"Poems of Dedication" by Stephen Spender
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"Lay your sleeping head, my love" by Wystan Hugh Auden
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"The Platonic Blow" by Wystan Hugh Auden
Auden's experiment in gay pornography. -
"The Edge of Being" by Stephen Spender
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"The Hawk in the Rain" by Ted Hughes
Hughes' first book of poetry. This book was beloved in England and overseas in America and ended up getting the Galbraith Prize. This collection of poems consists of 40 poems written by Hughes.
