Faber and Faber

When Anne Bradby (later AR ) plucked up courage to show some early poems to T. S. Eliot (though not requesting publication by Faber and Faber ), she was encouraged by his advice: I should...

She also sat on the committee which, under Alice Mary Smyth (later Hadfield) , was at work compiling the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. While working at Faber & Faber , AR was often...

This was designed as an introduction for readers unfamiliar with the poetry of the modern period, and ran from W. B. Yeats to Ruthven Todd . AR followed it with an extended volume of The...

AR 's first volume published with Faber & Faber benefited from the patronage of her former bosses there. T. S. Eliot recommended its publication, and the first edition appeared on expensive hand-made paper, which...

AR worked at Faber & Faber as secretary and copy-editor, first for Richard de la Mare and from late 1936 for T. S. Eliot . Her duties included helping Eliot select poetry for The Criterion...

Faber and Faber brought out AR 's New and Selected Poems, her first retrospective selection published in Britain.

This work, however, was not paid. AR decided that the only way to get into publishing professionally would be to become a secretary. In this capacity she started work for Faber and Faber at the...

The book was rejected by several publishers before Heinemann took it on. One of those who rejected it in an earlier form was the Hogarth Press , probably because it turned out too long...

VSW followed her Behn biography two years later with Andrew Marvell, to open Faber and Faber 's series The Poets on the Poets (in which the second volume was provided by Eliot writing on Dante ).

AS 's Selected Poems was issued in England by Oxford University Press , whose editor Jon Stallworthy had approached her as a step in its campaign to challenge Faber and Faber for supremacy as the...

JS published with FaberHer Book: Poems 1988-1998, which reprints her selections from her three previous collections.

JS began teaching English at Rolle College in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth , which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then...

During the same year she and Matthew Sweeney jointly edited an anthology, Emergency Kit: Poems for Strange Times, which draws on worldwide modern writing in English. In 2002 she edited the anthology Discourses...

This was published by Faber .

The publication was part of the prize offered by the Sunday Referee for the author of the best poem it had published that year. The previous year's winner had been Pamela Hansford Johnson , currently...