Talk:Georgian Poetry

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"The idea for an anthology began as a joke, when Marsh, Duncan Grant and George Mallory decided, one evening in 1912 to publish a parody of the many small poetry books that were appearing at the time. After some discussion it was decided to pursue the idea in all seriousness. Marsh and Brooke approached the poet and bookseller Harold Monro who had recently opened The Poetry Bookshop at Devonshire Street, London. He agreed to publish the book in return for a half share of the profits."

is, Robert Graves, life on the edge by Miranda Seymour (Doubleday, 1995) --Monk Bretton 01:50, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Pellow
Quite hard to get good information on J. D. C. Pellow. He was a civil servant after WWI, that much I know; and a good friend of Charles Williams. Apart from Parentalia in the early 1920s he didn't publish a great deal, it seems. Charles Matthews 16:35, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Possibly
Pellow seems to have been of a religious frame of mind, judging from some of the later poetry. He appears to have given a talk, "The Nature of The Church" to the Methodist Sacramental Fellowship Conference in 1938. The BL has a copy 4378.ee.51. And he appeared in Norman Nicholson's Pelican "Religious Verse" of 1942. When I have seen a copy I will let you know more (Pelicans usually gave a bit of biography) DJ 17:40, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

More
Pellow is certainly a curiosity! There are no biographical notes in Nicholson, so that appears a dead end. Pellow shared a volume of collected poems with George Every and S.L. Bethell in 1946. The notes in there tell us that some of the verse by Pellow was published in "Sobornost".

This turns out to be two "Psalms" which appeared in 1938.

"Sobornost" was the "Journal of the Fellowship of Saint Alban and Saint Sergius" a Russian Orthodox Church organisation in London (It is still going, but now based in Oxford!).

George Every was also a contributor to Sobornost, as was Edward Every, presumably of the same family..... Frustratingly, the "Collected Poems" were not reviewed by Sobornost. However, another contributor was John Heath-Stubbs.

The "Collected Poems" contains at least one real gem(to my mind) by Pellow; "Leviathan At Blackpool" written, he says, in Spring 1940.

DJ 17:00, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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Intriguingly Pellow appears in JC Squire's 1932 "Younger Poets of To-Day". His contribution; "English Elegies III" is quite a long one, but has quite a lot of energy......and exhibits a familiarity with Donne, Webster, "[William?] Browne and Taylor [The Water Poet?]". DJ (talk) 05:21, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Dj5dj (talk • contribs) 05:18, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

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Pellow's contribution to 'The Georgian Poets" was mocked by Sassoon who in suggesting it might be 'a tree-anthology' said of Pellow "I suspect him of being a beech-lover" Sassoon; A Poets's Experiment In Candid Criticism' New York Times Books, Feb 29, 1920. p.2.DJ (talk) 05:11, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Rating
This article was rated b-class, but I've re-rated it start-class. It does not meet the b-class standards as per Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment guidelines. The article has no references. It includes only a small ammount of unreferenced content, and the body is a series of text lists of authors in the anthology. C-class also requires references. INeverCry  08:30, 29 May 2012 (UTC)