Collected Poems - Hardcover

Ridler, Anne

 
9781857541168: Collected Poems

Synopsis

This collection contains all that Anne Ridler wished to preserve from her volumes of lyric poetry, together with the choruses from the play, "The Trial of Thomas Cranmer" and a masque for music by Elizabeth Maconchy, "The Jesse Tree". Anne Ridler's first book, "Poems" was published in 1939. She worked on the Faber editorial staff (1935-1940) for a time as assistant to T.S. Eliot. Her poetry developed alongside that of MacNeice and Auden, but also of Durrell and Watkins. She has published 10 collections of poems, original and translated opera libretti, including Monteverdi's "Orfeo".

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About the Author

Born in 1912, Anne Ridler was educated at Downe House School, in Italy, and at King's College, London. She worked on the editorial staff at Faber and Faber for a time as assistant to T.S. Eliot, and later as a freelance reader. She is married to Vivian Ridler, who was Printer to the University of Oxford 1958-1978.

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ISBN 10:  1857543173 ISBN 13:  9781857543179
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 1997
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