{{Short description|English poet and playwright}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''John Redwood Anderson''' (1883 – 29 March 1964) was an English poet and playwright. His play ''Babel'' was staged on several occasions.
==Life== Anderson was born in Salford and educated at home and at Trinity College, Oxford. After travelling, he settled as a teacher in Kingston-upon-Hull.<ref>''Poems of Today'', third series (1938), p. xxi.</ref><ref>''A master at Hymers College for many years'', Philip Larkin, ''Selected Letters'' (1992), edited by Anthony Thwaite, p. 555.</ref>
Anderson's play ''Babel'' was staged several times,<ref>[http://www.kent.ac.uk/sdfva/invisibleplay/Body/appendix1924plays.html] in 1924.</ref><ref>At the Mercury Theatre, London in 1936 [https://web.archive.org/web/20041207201747/http://collectorspost.com/Theatre/Books_Plays/000501.html].</ref> 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 died. She had been a leading suffragette and left her Essex home, Lamb Cottage in Sible Hedingham, to her niece.<ref name="Day">{{Cite web |url=http://www.siblehedingham.com/houses.htm |title=Historic Houses In Sible Hedingham |first=Pauline |last=Day |work=siblehedingham.com |access-date=19 February 2016 |archive-date=11 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511115141/http://www.siblehedingham.com/houses.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Anderson died at his home in Sible Hedingham on 29 March 1964; he was 81.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002134/19640330/437/0022 |title=Death of Poet |date=30 March 1964 |work=Birmingham Post |access-date=17 February 2019 |issue=32893 |page=22 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
==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) [http://www.lostbooks.net/cgi-bin/lbn455/30877.html?id=hI6A8YGN] *''While Fates Allow'' (1962) *''Poems of the Evening'' (1971)
==References== *''Poems of Today'', Third Series, compiled by the English Association (1938), p. xxi
==External links== {{wikisource|works=or}} *[http://www.idedrich.co.uk/Collections/J%20Redwood%20Anderson/Anderson,%20JR.htm Second-hand titles]
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