Published by Blackwell's xxi+205pp
edited by G. D. H. C. [Gerald H. Crow], G. P. D. [Geoffery Dennis], W. S. V. [Sherard Vines]
with Introduction by Gilbert Murray

Oxford Poetry was founded by Basil Blackwell in 1913. It was nearly his first publication on joining the family firm, but not unprecedented: in the 1880s his father Benjamin Henry Blackwell had published University prize poems and the undergraduate literary magazine "Waifs and Strays", to which the young A. E. Housman was once a contributor. For its first thirty years, Oxford Poetry was to overlap considerably with Blackwell's other benefactions to undergraduate poetry, two series of slim volumes (under the title "Adventurers All") and the termly magazine "Oxford Outlook" (1919-38), which shared many editors and contributors with OP. Money-losing then, they are collector's items now, a prospect which perhaps appealed to Blackwell, an expert bidder at antiquarian book auctions. "Oxford Poetry 1910-1913" was followed by a supplement a year later, and so on until the supplements took on a life of their own.

Contents

Gilbert Murray: Introduction;

J. D. Beazley: The Ballad of My Friend;

Charles Bewley: Winter in Ireland; A Girl's Song on Her Lover, Paidin, Ruadh;

J. R. I. Brooke: Reincarnation;

Wilfred Rowland Childe: A Song of the Little City; The Abiding Burg (Dedication: To the Small Towns of Christendom); The Chained Crusader (For C. M. D.); Dream-Cotswold; Vale;

G. N. Clark: Two Epigrams;

Douglas Cole: The Record; At A Fair; Spring Song; Contrast; Youth's Second-Sight;

A. J. Dawe: A Rhyme;

Geoffery Dennis: Napoleon's Last Victory; The West Countree; A Song of the Hills and My Friend;

Godfrey Elton: Ulysses; Retrospect; Respite; School-Days; News;

Philip Guedalla: The Frontier; The Coming;

Roger Heath: The Crimson Box;

Alec Johnston: To an Optimist;

D. M. Low: Hendecasyllables;

P. H. B. Lyon: Lyric;

E. H. W. Meyerstein: The Familiar; Oxford; Meditation;

J. S. Muirhead: Ganymede;

Maurice Roy Ridley: Summer and Winter; The Return;

Michael T. H. Sadler: Sic Transit...; Sloane Square-; Rain; Hyssop;

R. A. Shepherd: In Mary's Month; "Parvula Dorothea"; Over the Lake; Margaratæ Abituræ; Sonnet;

Sherard Vines: Flood Burial; Mud; "Tod als Freund"; Hotel; A Song of Three Nights; I will lift up Mine Eyes; The Road's Enough;

Anon. (Balliol): Advice to Scholars;

Anon. (Ignot.): G. W. L. T.;

W. Bridges-Adams: Fragment (from the Elizabethans);

Philip Guedalla: Dollares; Romancero; Vacational; To the Union in Neglect; Cuckoo Song; A Garland;

A. P. Herbert: A Fish out of Water; Yuletide Yarns;

R. A. Knox: Megalomania; The Visitors' Book, Hartland Quay; The Visitors' Book, Bourton-on-the-Water; Absolute and Abitofhell;