I’ve written here before about the war poetry of Armine Wodehouse (Pelham Grenville’s brother), and I’ve written more, by the way, in a contribution to the forthcoming collection of critical essays, Middlebrow Wodehouse.
I knew that after the War Armine W. returned to India,and I knew that he contributed light verse to Punch. What I hadn’t known before today was that in the twenties and early thirties he regularly contributed very accomplished light verse to the Times of India, under the pseudonym of ‘Senex’.
I’ve spent much of the morning (when I should have been doing something else) enjoying his poems.
I know that some of this blog’s readers enjoy, as I do, poems about Libraries. Here is ‘Senex’, in 1929, describing a hill-station library that has stayed unchanged for thirty years:
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Some Blogs
- A Century Back
- Airminded
- armsandthemedicalman
- Blindfold and Alone
- Centenary News
- Great War at Sea Poetry Project
- Historic Battlefields
- History News Network
- John Allen Wyeth blog
- Literary Taste
- Move Him Into the Sun
- New Statesman competitions and poets
- Reading 1900-1950
- Reeding Lessons
- Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship blog
- Snakeskin's Blog
- The Bibliophilic Blogger
- The Passing Tramp
- Trench Fever
- UKNIWM
- War Poetry Blog
- Wellington House
- WW1 Historical Association
Some Links
- Centre for First World War Studies, Birmingham
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- Everyday Lives in War
- First World War Poetry Digital Archive
- Great War Dust Jackets
- In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper
- Legacies of War
- Reading Sheffield
- Scarletfinders
- Sexton Blake
- SHARP Web
- The Heritage of the Great War
- The Historial, Peronne
- The Imperial War Museum
- The John Buchan Society
- The Kipling Society
- War Poets Association
- WW1 Document Archive
- WW1 Virtual Library
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What a juicy post. Thanks for ferreting it out and sharing with all of us.