For For students of English poetry of the First World War years and of Sayers's Oxford beginnings; not for general readers.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
1 of 5specialist interest
For the researcher
2 of 5useful
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
An Oxford student verse anthology of 1917 that Sayers co-edited while working for Blackwell.
How it proceeds
Philosophic0 of 5
Scriptural0 of 5
Experiential2 of 5
Sociological1 of 5
Historical1 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
One of the annual anthologies of verse by members of Oxford University, published by B. H. Blackwell, Oxford. The 1917 volume was edited by Wilfred Rowland Childe, T. W. Earp and Sayers, whose initials stand on the title page (W.R.C., T.W.E. and D.L.S.), during the years she worked for Blackwell; it includes poems by the editors.
