J. C. Hall (poet)

J. C. Hall
Born John Clive Hall
(1920-09-12)12 September 1920
Ealing, London
Died 14 October 2011(2011-10-14) (aged 91)
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Occupation Poet
Language English
Nationality British
Alma mater Oriel College, Oxford

John Clive Hall (12 September 1920 – 14 October 2011) was an English poet and editor.

Poetry

Hall's poetry was first published when he was aged seventeen in the anthology, The Best Poems of 1938.[1] He subsequently wrote and published a trickle of short poems over seven further decades. Not a modernist, he was included in Dannie Abse's 'reactionary anthology' Mavericks.[2] His work was admired by Philip Larkin who described it as, "just the sort of thing I should like to have done myself" and by W. H. Auden who wrote "in the poems of J. C. Hall we see a craftsmanship that yields to the reader constant pleasure and enjoyment. J. C. Hall should be better known."[3]

Life

Born in Ealing, London and brought up in Tunbridge Wells,[4] Hall attended Leighton Park School and Oriel College, Oxford.[5] He was an editor of Fords and Bridges at Oxford and became good friends with Keith Douglas.[5] As a pacifist he did farm work during the war and when Douglas was killed in Normandy, Hall was named as his literary executor.[6] He worked at London Magazine and at Stephen Spender's Encounter as an editor.[4] He edited the Collected Poems of Edwin Muir for Faber and Faber in 1952.[7] A group photographic portrait of Hall, with fellow poets Dannie Abse, David John Murray Wright, Anthony Cronin and John Smith is held by the National Portrait Gallery.[8]

Bibliography

Poetry Collections

  • The Summer Dance and Other Poems (John Lehmann, London 1951)
  • The Burning Hare (Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press 1966 )
  • A House of Voices (Phoenix Living Poet Series, Chatto & Windus/Hogarth, 1973)
  • Selected and New Poems 1939-84 (Secker & Warburg , 1986)
  • Long Shadows (Shoestring 2003, repr. Faber & Faber 2010)

Anthologies and Shared Collections

  • Selected Poems (Keith Douglas, J.C. Hall, Norman Nicholson) (1943)
  • Mavericks: An Anthology, (Howard Sergeant and Dannie Abse (eds), Editions Poetry and Poverty, London, 1957)

References

  1. ↑ Moult, Thomas (1938). The best Poems of 1938. Jonathan Cape.
  2. ↑ Abse, Dannie; Sergeant, Howard, eds. (1957). Mavericks - An Anthology. Editions Poetry And Poverty.
  3. ↑ Hall, J. C. (19 August 2010). "Long Shadows". Faber & Faber – via Amazon.
  4. 1 2 "J. C. Hall Obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 10 November 2011. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  5. 1 2 Noel-Tod & Hamilton 2013, p. 239.
  6. ↑ "J.C. Hall - Authors - Faber & Faber". www.faber.co.uk.
  7. ↑ Muir, Edwin (1952). Collected Poems 1921-1951. Faber and Faber.
  8. ↑ "David John Murray Wright; Anthony Cronin; John Clive ('J.C.') Hall; John Smith; Dannie Abse - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk.

Sources

  • Noel-Tod, Jeremy; Hamilton, Ian (2013). The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199640256.
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