Clifford Bax

Clifford Bax

Author

Clifford Bax (13 July 1886 – 18 November 1962) was a versatile English writer, known particularly as a playwright, a journalist, critic and editor, and a poet, lyricist and hymn writer. He also was a translator, for example of Goldoni. The composer Arnold Bax was his brother, and set some of his words to music.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Twenty Chinese poems (1910) with Arthur Bowmar-Porter
Poems Dramatic and Lyrical (1911) attributed (also to Arnold Bax)
The Poetasters of Ispahan (1912) play
Friendship (1913)
The Marriage of the Soul (1913)
Shakespeare (1921) play (with Harold F. Rubinstein)
The Traveller’s Tale (1921) poems
Polly (1922) adapted from John Gay
The Insect Play (1923) adaptation with Nigel Playfair
Midsummer Madness (1924) ballad opera
Inland Far. A book of thoughts and impressions (1925)
Up Stream (1925)
Mr. Pepys (1926) ballad opera
Many a Green Isle (1927) short stories
Waterloo Leave (1928) play
Square Pegs: A Polite Satire (1928)
One-act playsRasputin (1929)
Socrates (1930)
The Immortal Lady (1930)
The Venetian (1931)
Twelve Short Plays, serious and comic (1932)
Leonardo da Vinci (1932)
Pretty Witty Nell. An account of Nell Gwynn and her environment (1932)
Farewell, My Muse (1932) collected poems
The Rose Without a Thorn (1933) play
April in August (1934)
Ideas and People (1936)
The House of Borgia (1937)
Highways and Byways in Essex (1939)
The Life of the White Devil (1940) biography of Vittoria Orsini
Evenings in Albany (1942)
Time with a Gift of Tears. A modern romance (1943) novel
Vintage verse; an anthology of poetry in English (1945)
The Beauty of Women (1946)
Golden Eagle (1946) play
The Silver Casket Being love-letters and love poems attributed to Mary Stuart (1946)
All the world’s a stage: theatrical portraits (1946) editor
The Buddha (1947) radio play
Day, a Night and a Morrow (1948)
The Relapse (1950)
Some I Knew Well (1951) memoirs
Hemlock for Eight (1946) radio play with L. M. Lion
Rosemary for Remembrance (1948)
Circe (1949) muse
The Distaff Muse. An anthology of poetry written by women (1949) with Meum Stewart
W. G. Grace (1952)