John Drinkwater's published works

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A more comprehensive list including publications of poems, articles and essays in magazines, items edited, introductions, reviews and other contributions, etc., can be accessed here, in pdf format. This has been prepared by Jeff Cooper, an expert on the publications of John Drinkwater, and he has very kindly given permission for it to be made available here. It is not available anywhere else. Please note, this list is still in draft, and the copyright is owned by Jeff Cooper. Details of how to contact him are in the document.

Known pseudonyms of John Drinkwater as an actor: John Darnley, E. Wilmot Terris

Title (in alphabetical order)	Date	Publisher
Abraham Lincoln: a play	1918	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
Abraham Lincoln	1919	Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston
All About Me: Poems for a Child (illustrator H.M. Brock)	1928	Collins, London; Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston & New York
An Anthology of English Verse	1924	Collins, London
An Autobiography	1931-32	Ernest Benn, London
Bird in Hand: a play in three acts	1927	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
A Book for Bookmen: Being Edited Manuscripts and Marginalia With Essays on Several Occasions (edited by J.D.)	1926	Dulau, London
Charles James Fox	1928	Ernest Benn, London
Claud Lovat Fraser, with representative examples of his work reproduced in collotype and line (co-author Albert Rutherston)	1923	Heinemann, London
Collected Plays of John Drinkwater Vol. 1	1925	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
Collected Plays of John Drinkwater Vol. 2	1925	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
The Collected Poems of John Drinkwater, Volume I	1923	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
The Collected Poems of John Drinkwater, Volume II	1923-37	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
Cromwell: a character study	1927	Hodder & Stoughton, London
Cophetua: A Play in One Act	1911	David Nutt, London
Cotswold Characters	1921	Yale University Press, New Haven
Cromwell and Other Poems	1913	Cornish Brothers, Birmingham
Death of Leander and other poems	1906	Cornish Brothers, Birmingham
Discovery, Being the Second Book of an Autobiography: 1897-1913	1931-32	Ernest Benn, London
The Dramatic Works of St. John Hankin (with intro by J.D.)	1912	M. Secker, London
The Eighteen-seventies: essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature; edited by John Drinkwater	1929	Cambridge University Press; The MacMillan Co.
The Eighteen-sixties: essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature; edited by John Drinkwater	1932	Cambridge University Press; The MacMillan Co.
England To America, by Margaret Prescott Montague (with contribution by J.D.)	1920	Doubleday, Page and Company, New York
An English Medley (choruses set to music: music by Rutland Boughton)	1911	Bournville Works, Birmingham (printed to celebrate its performance by Bournville works employees at the Summer Meeting 1911)
English poetry: an Unfinished History	1938	Methuen, London
From the German: verses written from the German Poets	1924	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
Garibaldi: a chronicle play of Italian freedom in ten scenes	1936	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
The Gentle Art of Theatre-going	1927	Robert Holden, London
Inheritance	1931	Ernest Benn, London
John Hampden's England	1933	Thornton Butterworth, London
The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle	1931	William Heinemann, London
Lincoln: The World Emancipator	1920	Houghton Mifflin, Boston & New York
Love lyrics from five centuries, Selected by George G. Harrap; with an introd. by John Drinkwater; and pictures by Baron Arild Rosenkrantz	1932	London
Loyalties	1918	Beaumont Press, London
The Lyric	1915	Martin Secker, London
The Lyric	1921	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
Lyrical and other poems	1908	Samurai Press, Cranleigh
A Man's House: a Play in Three Acts	1934	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
Mary Stuart, a Play	1921, 1922	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
More About Me, poems for a child	1929	Collins, London
Mr Charles, King of England	1926	Hodder & Stoughton, London
The Muse in Council, being essays on poets and poetry	1925	Sidgwick & Jackson, London; Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston & New York
Oliver Cromwell: a play	1921	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
Olton pools	1917	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
The Only Legend: a Masque of the Scarlet Pierrot (Music by James Brier)	1913	(printed privately, London?)
Other Poems	Oct. 1908	Samurai Press, Cranleigh (300 copies, hand-printed)
The Outline of Literature (ed. J.D.)	1924	London
Patriotism in Literature	1924	Williams & Norgate, London
Pawns: Three Poetic Plays	1919	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
Pawns and Cophetua: Four Poetic Plays	1922	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
Pepys, His Life and Character	1930	William Heinemann, London
Persephone	1926	W.E.Rudge, New York
The Pied Piper (music by F.W. Sylvester)	1912	Bournville Works, Birmingham (to celebrate its performance by Bournville works employees at the Summer Meeting 1912)
The Pilgrim of Eternity: Byron, a Conflict	1925	Hodder & Stoughton, London
Poems: 1903	1903	C. Combridge, Birmingham
Poems, 1908-1914	1918	Dodd, Mead & Co., New York; Sidgwick & Jackson, London (1919)
Poems of Love and Earth	1912	David Nutt, London
Poems of Men and Hours	1911	David Nutt, London
The poems of Sidney Godolphin, edited by William Dighton; with a preface by John Drinkwater	1931	The Clarendon Press, John Johnson, Oxford
Poems: with a selection of letters and essays, introd. by John Drinkwater	1922	London
Poetry and dogma	1931	(the Arthur Skemp Memorial Lecture, 1931)
Preludes 1921-1922	1922	Morland Press, London
Prose Papers	1917	E. Mathews, London
Puss in Boots: a play in five scenes	1911	David Nutt, London
Rebellion: a play in three acts	1914	David Nutt, London
Robert Burns: a play (or ballad opera, music by F. Austin)	1925	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
Robert E. Lee: A Play	1923	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
Robinson of England (J.H. Dowd, illustrator)	1937	Methuen, London
Seeds of Time	1921	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
Selected Poems of John Drinkwater	1922	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
Shakespeare	1933	Duckworth, London
Some Contributions to the English Anthology, with special reference to the seventeenth century	1922	Oxford University Press
The Storm: A Play in One Act	1915	printed privately
Summer harvest: poems 1924-1933	1933	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
Swinburne, an Estimate	1913	Dent & Sons, London & Toronto; E.P.Dutt & Co., New York
Swords and Ploughshares	1915	Sidgwick & Jackson, London
This Troubled World	1933	Oxford University Press
Tides	1917	Beaumont Press, London
Twentieth Century Poetry	1929	Houghton Mifflin, Boston & New York
Twenty poems by Robert Stephen Hawker; with an introduction by John Drinkwater	1925	Basil Blackwell, Oxford
Victorian Poetry	1923	Hodder & Stoughton, London
The Way of Poetry: An Anthology for Younger Readers	1921	Collins, London & Glasgow
William Morris: a Critical Study	1912	Martin Secker, London

Poems by John Drinkwater also appeared in New Numbers; all five volumes of Edward Marsh's anthology 'Georgian Poetry', 1912-22; the Oxford Book of Victorian Verse; 'Selections from Modern Poets', 1921 and 1924, ed. J.C. Squire; as well as many anthologies up until about the 1970s.

Modern reprints and collections

Some of John Drinkwater's works were reprinted during the late 20th C. Before the end of 2007, this presumably took place with the permission of the copyright holders. However, as copyright on his works lapsed on January 1st, 2008 (seventy years after the end of the year of his death, under the terms of the current legislation, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988), a few publishers have taken the opportunity to either reprint some of his works in facsimile or to gather some of his more popular material together. This is a partial list, although it is likely as complete as online research will permit.

Where the publication is not a straight reprint or facsimile but in all likelihood a new collection of pieces, this is indicated by an asterisk beside the title.

Title	Date	Publisher
Abraham Lincoln, a play	2004	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
Abraham Lincoln, a play	2009	Bibliolife, Llc, USA
A Book for Bookmen: Being Edited Manuscripts and Marginalia With Essays on Several Occasions (edited by J.D.)	1968	Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, N.Y.
Cotswold Characters	2007	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
Cromwell and Other Poems	2007	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
Lincoln: The World Emancipator	2007	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
Loyalties	2007	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
The Lyric	2004	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
The Lyric (an essay)	2006	IndyPublish.com
Mary Stuart, a Play	2007	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
The Outline of literature Vol.2, edited by John Drinkwater; revised by Horace Shipp	1950	George Newnes, London
The Outline of Literature, Vols. 1-3 (ed. J.D.)	2005	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
Pawns: Three Poetic Plays	2007	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
Poems, 1908-1914	2007	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
Poems of Love and Earth	2007	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
Poems of Men and Hours	2007	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
Poetry and dogma	1970	Folcroft Library Editions, Folcroft, Pennsylvania
Prose Papers	1969	Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York
Prose Papers	2007	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
Robinson of England (J.H. Dowd, illustrator)	2007	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
Seeds of Time	2007	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
Short Works of John Drinkwater*	2009	Bibliobazaar, Llc, USA
The Storm: A Play in One Act	2007	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
Swinburne, an Estimate	1969	Folcroft Press, Folcroft, Pennsylvania
Swords and Ploughshares	2007	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
This Troubled World	1967	Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York
Tides	2007	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
The Way of Poetry: An Anthology for Younger Readers	2008	Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, Montana
William Morris: a Critical Study	1969	Folcroft Press, Folcroft, Pennsylvania