Oxford Poetry, 1917

  • Year 1918
  • Type Poem
  • Genre poetry
  • Tradition Anglican
  • Original language English

For For students of English poetry of the First World War years and of Sayers's Oxford beginnings; not for general readers.

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1 of 5 specialist interest
For the researcher
2 of 5 useful
Difficulty
2 of 5 moderate

An Oxford student verse anthology of 1917 that Sayers co-edited while working for Blackwell.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 0 of 5
  • Scriptural 0 of 5
  • Experiential 2 of 5
  • Sociological 1 of 5
  • Historical 1 of 5

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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.

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