Selected Poems (ePub)

Frances Cornford (1886-1960) was born and lived for most of her life in Cambridge. She was the granddaughter of Charles Darwin, and on her mother's side was related to William Wordsworth. In 1909 she married the classicist Francis Cornford, who was to become Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge, and they had five children. Frances Cornford published eight books of poetry and two of translations. Her Collected Poems (1954) was the Choice of the Poetry Book Society, and in 1959 she was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Son of Frances Cornford, medical doctor. Jane Dowson is Reader in twentieth-century literature but passionate about all periods and genres. Her work on women's poetry began with the 1930s then developed to the modernist period (1910-39) and from then to co-write the history of twentieth-century British and Irish women's poetry. Work on the early twentieth century involved finding poems and reviews in literary periodicals such the Listener, Time and Tide and The Times Literary Supplement. For her chapter in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Magazines, she came upon The Bermondsey Book, a fascinating periodical rooted in the working-class community that frequented the Bermondsey Bookshop, started by Ethel Gutman. Jane Dowson has worked on the papers and poetry of Elizabeth Jennings in order to review Jennings's place in twentieth-century literary history. The writing associated with Jennings's breakdown led to further investigation of the term 'confessional' and how it might be redefined in the twenty-first century. It also led to Jane Dowson's current interest in poetry about illness and links with the annual symposium, Poetry and Medicine and the Literature and Madness network.

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