Collected Poems

Anne Ridler

ISBN 10: 1857541162 / ISBN 13: 9781857541168

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd, GB, 1994

About this Item

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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Poems
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857541162
• ISBN 13: 9781857541168
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Anne Ridler's first book, Poems, was published in 1939. Her poetry developed in the light and shadow of the poets of the day - MacNeice and Auden, but also Durrell and Watkins. As important is a deep affinity with the secular and devotional writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ambitious for her poems, she was never ambitious for reputation. Like that of her friend E.J. Scovell, her work has not received proper recognition until now.

She has published ten collections of poems, original and translated opera libretti, including Monteverdi's Orfeo. She is the author of verse plays which have been performed in Oxford and London. This collection contains all that she wishes 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.

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.