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BASIL BLACKWELL
OXFORD POETRY 1921
EDITED BY ALAN PORTER, RICHARD HUGHES, ROBERT GRAVES
OXFORD BASIL BLACKWELL MCMXXI
PRINTED AT THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
The Editors of this year’s Oxford Poetry, the work of undergraduates who have been in residence since the date of the last collection, have attempted to make the volume more representative of Poetry and less representative merely of Oxford than its predecessors. There is always at Oxford a fashion in verse as much as in dress, and, to judge from the bulk of contributions submitted, this fashion has not changed materially since last noted and recorded in print. Mr Jones-Smith, of Balliol, still writes musically of brimming chalices, vermilion lips, chrysoprase, lotuses, arabesques and darkling spires against glimmering skies; Miss Smith-Jones, of Somerville, is equally faithful to her scarlet sins, beloved hearts, little clutching hands, little pattering feet, rosaries, eternity, roundabouts, and glimmering spires against darkling skies. Exclusion of these worn properties has given the fewer writers than usual represented here, extended elbow room, and a chance of showing some individual capacity for better or worse.
Most of the pieces have already appeared serially in The London Mercury , The Spectator , The Westminster Gazette , The New Statesman , The Nation and Athenæum , The Observer , and the other leading literary reviews.