Ruth Pitter

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During a career that spanned the greater part of the twentieth century, RP published eighteen collections of poetry. She left letters and a journal, and occasionally spoke or wrote on literary topics. Her admirers have seen her work as offering an alternative to experimental modernism. She has four poems in the Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse edited by Philip Larkin in 1973.

Milestones

7 November 1897

RP was born at Ilford in Essex, the eldest in a family of three children.
Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, pp. 19-40.
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1941

RP published The Rude Potato, a volume of comic gardening poems with illustrations by Roger Furse , which she later described as exemplifying her bawdy side.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles.
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1990

The final book by RP to appear before her death was Collected Poems, with an introduction by Elizabeth Jennings .
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

29 February 1992

RP died at about ninety-five.
“Ruth Pitter”. Enitharmon Press: Enitharmon Authors.

Biography

Birth and Family

7 November 1897

RP was born at Ilford in Essex, the eldest in a family of three children.
Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, pp. 19-40.
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