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The Criterion was a British literary magazine. It was created by the poet, dramatist, and literary critic T. S. Eliot who served as its editor for its entire run.
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1926 - 1950 - poetry timeline about poetry fro 1926 to 1950 years in Britain.
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Considered by Louis MacNeice himself to be juvenilia.
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T. S. Eliot published Auden's "Poems" in the literary magazine The Criterion after turning down publishing his poems several times.
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The title is inspired by St. Paul's epistle to the Romans (6:9).
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Spender was an English poet whose work concentrated on social injustice and class struggle.
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Collection of poetry.
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A book written in verse. Here Auden defined poetry as "memorable speech".
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In this poem Auden describes the moment when he realised he should become a poet. Auden was also one of the members of the Oxford Group.
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This poem draws on the experiences of the Spanish Civil War.
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Smith's poetry is very dark and as the characters are continuously saying good-bye to their friends and welcoming death.
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Stevie Smith was an English feminist.
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Jon Stallworthy gives the following summary of The Earth Compels: "The book offers an impressionistic picture of a journey from brightness, 'The Sunlight on the Garden', towards darkness; from Carrickfergus to Iceland and the Hebrides; from peace - by way of one World War - into the advancing shadows of another." (Wikipedia)
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Modernism
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This poem marks the outbreak of the WWI during which Auden spent majority of his time in America. On this poem Auden described 1930s as "a low dishonest decade".
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Many of Auden's lines have passed into common culture. For example: poetry makes nothing happen.
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Released posthumously.
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Through her life, Smith was an active feminist.
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Modernism, a suite of poems structured in emulation of the music of Bach.
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This poem criticises WWII for the pain it has caused the world, and the tyranny. It was written at the height of WWII.
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Collection of poetry.
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Influenced by W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, and Thomas Hardy, his poems are highly structured but flexible verse forms. (Wikipedia)
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Denise Levertov is an Essex born politician, feminist and poetry editor for The Nation.
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The most famous work by Thomas that has been used widely in popular culture. Although it was written in 1947, it wasn't published until 1951.
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Auden's experiment in gay pornography.
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Hughes' first book of poetry. This book was beloved in England and overseas in America and ended up getting the Galbraith Prize. This collection of poems consists of 40 poems written by Hughes.
