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Born in September 20, 1902 / Died in March 7, 1971 / United Kingdom / English

Bibliography

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POETRY; SELF-ILLUSTRATED

  • A Good Time Was Had by All, J. Cape, 1937.
  • Tender Only to One, J. Cape, 1938.
  • Mother, What is Man?, J. Cape, 1942.
  • Harold's Leap, Chapman & Hall, 1950.
  • Not Waving but Drowning, Deutsch, 1957.
  • Selected Poems (also see below), Longmans, Green, 1962, New Directions, 1964.
  • The Frog Prince and Other Poems (also see below), Longmans, Green, 1966.
  • (With Edwin Brock and Geoffrey Hill) Penguin Modern Poets 8, Penguin, 1966.
  • The Best Beast, Knopf, 1969.
  • Two in One (includes Selected Poems and The Frog Prince and Other Poems), Longman, 1971.
  • Scorpion and Other Poems, Longman, 1972.
  • Collected Poems, A. Lane, 1975, Oxford University Press, 1976.
  • New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith, New Directions (New York, NY), 1988.

Contributor of poetry to numerous anthologies, including Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Verse, 2nd edition, 1965, and Poetry 1900 to 1965, 1967.

OTHER

  • Novel on Yellow Paper; or, Work It out for Yourself, J. Cape, 1936, Morrow, 1937, New Directions (New York, NY), 1994.
  • Over the Frontier (novel), J. Cape, 1938.
  • The Holiday (novel), Chapman & Hall, 1949.
  • Some Are More Human than Others (drawings and captions), Gaberbocchus, 1958.
  • (Editor) T. S. Eliot: A Symposium for His 70th Birthday, Hart-Davis, 1958.
  • (Editor) The Poet's Garden, Viking, 1970 (published in England as The Batsford Book of Children's Verse, Batsford, 1970).
  • Me Again: Uncollected Writings of Stevie Smith, edited by Jack Barbera and William McBrien, Virago, 1981, Farrar, Straus, 1982.
  • A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith: Selected Short Prose, New Directions (New York, NY), 1995.

Contributor of poems and reviews to Observer, Times Literary Supplement, Listener, New Yorker, Nation, and other periodicals.