Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985) was for many years a vital figure in the literary life of Britain. A notoriously unsparing reviewer, he edited the magazine New Verse (which brought Auden and other writers of the 1930s to prominence) and found popularity with his writings about the countryside and sever...

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1. Verfasser:	Grigson, Geoffrey 1905-1985 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Greening, John 1954- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London Greenwich Exchange 2017
Schlagworte:	English poetry / 20th century English poetry
Zusammenfassung:	Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985) was for many years a vital figure in the literary life of Britain. A notoriously unsparing reviewer, he edited the magazine New Verse (which brought Auden and other writers of the 1930s to prominence) and found popularity with his writings about the countryside and several wonderful anthologies. For much of his life he was writing his own poetry too, but it was only when he was in his sixties that it attracted much attention, and since his death it has largely been overlooked. This new Selected Poems ranges from his debut 1939 collection and the work of the 1940s and 1950s (long unavailable) through to the award-winning late volumes and the very last poem he wrote, in September 1985. Love lyrics, satires, landscapes, sketches of rural life, autobiographical pieces - these poems sharp, economical, by turnhave a freshness and clarity of focus rare among contemporary poets. They also amount to a fully rounded portrait of this controversial Cornishman: a seventh son, who lost all six brothers before he was middle-aged; who was married three times (finally to the cookery writer, Jane Grigson); who rubbed shoulders with the famous poets and artists of his day; who was quintessentially English, yet devoted to France and the idea of Europe; who lived through two world wars and many more purely literary feuds. Now the smoke has had time to clear, what remains is Geoffrey Grigson's poetry - by turns lyrical or barbed, restlessly attentive to the physical world, its delights and its terrors
Beschreibung:	Poems selected from the following, previously published collections: Several observations: Thirty five poems (1939) -- Under the cliff & other poems (1943) -- The isles of Scilly & other poems (1946) -- Collected poems 1924-1962 (1963) -- A skull in Salop ( 1967) -- Ingestion of ice-cream (1969) -- Discoveries of bones and stones (1971) -- Sad grave of an imperial mongoose (1973) -- Angles and circles (1974) -- The fiesta (1978) -- History of him (1980) -- The Cornish dancer (1982) -- Montaigne's tower & other poems (1984) -- Persephone's flowers (1986). - Includes index of titles and first lines
Beschreibung:	175 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:	1910996130 9781910996133