John Redwood Anderson (1883 – 29 March 1964) was an
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poet and playwright. His play ''Babel'' was staged on several occasions.
Life
Anderson was born in
Salford
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and educated at home and at
Trinity College, Oxford
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. After travelling, he settled as a teacher in
Kingston-upon-Hull
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.
Anderson's play ''Babel'' was staged several times, and published by Ernest Benn in 1927. It reappeared in 1936 in a revised stage version as ''The Tower to Heaven'' by the Oxford University Press.
In 1953 his wife, Gwyneth's aunt
Rachel Barrett
Rachel Barrett (12 November 1874 – 26 August 1953) was a Welsh suffragette and newspaper editor born in Carmarthen. Educated at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth she became a science teacher, but quit her job in 1906 on hearing ...
died. She had been a leading suffragette and left her Essex home, Lamb Cottage in
Sible Hedingham
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, to her niece.
Anderson died at his home in Sible Hedingham on 29 March 1964; he was 81.
Works
*''The Music of Death'' (1904)
*''The Legend of Eros and Psyche'' (1908)
*''The Mask'' (1912)
*''Flemish Tales'' (1913)
*''Walls and Hedges'' (1919)
*''Haunted Islands'' (1923/4)
*''Babel'' (1927) verse drama
*''The Vortex'' (1928)
*''Standing Waters'' (1929) (poetry - pamphlet)
*''Transvaluations'' (1932)
*''The Human Dawn'' (1934)
*''English Fantasies'' (1935)
*''The Tower to Heaven'' (1936)
*''The Curlew Cries'' (1940)
*''The Principle of Uniformity in English Metre'' (1941) (criticism - pamphlet)
*''Approach'' (1946)
*''The Fugue of Time'' (1946)
*''Paris Symphony'' (1947)
*''An Ascent'' (1947)
*''Pillars to Remembrance'' (1948)
*''Almanac'' (1956
*''While Fates Allow'' (1962)
*''Poems of the Evening'' (1971)
References
*''Poems of Today'', Third Series, compiled by the
English Association
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(1938), p. xxi
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1883 births
1964 deaths
20th-century English male writers
20th-century English poets
Writers from Manchester
English male poets
Writers from Salford
Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
Writers from Kingston upon Hull
People from Sible Hedingham