Born: 30 July 1912, Rugby, Warwickshire, England
Died: 15 October 2001, Oxford, England
Nationality: English
Biography
Anne Ridler was an English poet, dramatist, editor, and librettist. She worked at Faber and Faber and was associated with T.S. Eliot and mid-twentieth-century religious poetry.
Anne Ridler
In Regent's Park
From Poems. Oxford University Press, 1939.
Dahlias down the banks flow crisp and bright,
the grass is winter-short and pungent,
dipping oars are plangent,
and in the light mist, dripping grey like silk,
water and trees and air seem smoothed in milk...
Two stanzas of description followed by four of imaginative speculation.