A November 1949 issue of The Oxford Viewpoint, Volume III Number 3, a literary magazine associated with the post-war intellectual and literary culture of Oxford. FREE UK postage.
Includes essays, fiction and poetry by:
• J.O.B. – The Goddess Leaves Oxford
• Godfrey Smith – Inheritance
• P. D. James – Auden and Oxford (published here as J. D. James)
• Bernard Smith – Dr. Faustus
• Francis Huxley – Marriages Are Made in Heaven
• Peter Heyworth – Salzburg Festival 1949
• Peter Weitzman – On a Lithograph
• Paul Vaughan – An American Humorist
The issue was edited by Malcolm Scrimgeour with Francis Musker as business editor and assistant editors Richard Brett-Smith and Shaun McCarthy.
Contents include essays, literary criticism and poetry by a number of contributors connected with Oxford literary life. Of particular interest is an early contribution by P. D. James, published here under the name J. D. James, later internationally famous as the author of the Inspector Dalgliesh crime novels.
The issue also contains an article by Francis Huxley, the anthropologist and son of the writer Aldous Huxley, along with cultural commentary including a piece on the Salzburg Festival of 1949.
Printed in Oxford by Holywell Press, the magazine forms part of the mid-twentieth-century tradition of Oxford literary reviews which often published early work by writers who later achieved wider prominence.
The rear cover carries an advertisement for White’s Restaurant, 134 High Street, Oxford, reflecting the social and cultural setting of the university city in the late 1940s.
Year: 1949
Pages: 30
Condition: Good
Notes: Near Very Good
