Collected Poems

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".