Published by Blackwell's viii+51pp
edited by Charles Plumb, W. H. Auden
with Preface

Auden's junior editorship in 1926 appears to have been instrumental in gathering part of the Auden "gang" together, in particular bringing Rex Warner and Cecil Day Lewis to his notice. The preface, probably by Plumb, has been much quoted: "If it is a natural preference to inhabit a room with casements opening onto Fairyland, one at least of them should open upon The Waste Land."

Contents

W. H. Auden: Preface; Thomas Epilogises [for C. I.]; The Letter; Cinders;

D. Batchelor: Three Epitaphs;

Arthur Braine-Hartnell: A Sharp Tale of Love; Witchcraft;

Norman Cameron, as J. N. Cameron: The March of Ages; Nunc Scio quid sit Amor; Peace from Ghosts;

C. Day Lewis, as Cecil Day-Lewis: 'Cyprian! Cyprian!'; The Shadow Pimp; Naked Woman with Kotyle; It is the True Star;

Tom Driberg, as Thomas Driberg: London Square;

James Ferguson, as James Fergusson: 'A Little Low Dry Garret';

Wyndham Ketton-Cremer: Song; The Phantom; Epilogue;

Patrick Monkhouse: Blind Man's Bluff; Proud Sunset;

Charles Plumb: Preface; Atlantic Grain; Mais ce n'était point la jalousie; Black Country; Rededication;

Eric Schroeder: My Sister Playing;

Ronald McNair Scott: Depression; Induction to an Eclogue; The Renegade;

John Richmond Theobald: Apotheosis;

Rex Warner: A Kitchen Garden; Friends; Odyssey; Manifesto;

Martin Watson: Empty Room;