Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985)
Autor von The Faber Book of Love Poems
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Ideas: A Volume of Ideas, Living, Dying, Dead & Fossil, Which We Are Moved By or Were Moved By (1954) 19 Exemplare
People : a volume of the good, bad, great & eccentric who illustrate the admirable diversity of man (1954) 15 Exemplare
Places: a volume of travel in space and time; places which have delighted, intrigued, and intimidated men (1954) 14 Exemplare
Things; a volume of objects devised by man's genius which are the measure of his civilization (1954) 12 Exemplare
English Villages in Colour 5 Exemplare
English Country A Series of Illustrations 4 Exemplare
The Shell guide to wild life 3 Exemplare
Places of the Mind 2 Exemplare
Poets in their pride 2 Exemplare
English romantic art 2 Exemplare
About Britain. [Guidebooks] 2 Exemplare
English Drawing from Samuel Cooper to Gwen John 2 Exemplare
The three kings : a Christmas book of carols, poems and pieces, chosen with an account of the legend (1958) — Herausgeber — 2 Exemplare
William Barnes 1 Exemplar
Ingestion of ice-cream : and other poems 1 Exemplar
Aphrodite: Die Biographie 1 Exemplar
Village England 1 Exemplar
New Verse: An anthology — Herausgeber — 1 Exemplar
Penguin Modern Painters: Henry Moore 1 Exemplar
The isles of Scilly, and other poems 1 Exemplar
Several observations : thirty five poems 1 Exemplar
Metropolitan Museum Of Art Miniatures, Corot 1 Exemplar
English Excursions 1 Exemplar
John Craxton : paintings and drawings 1 Exemplar
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Selected Poems of John Dryden (Crown Classics) — Herausgeber — 1 Exemplar
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Grigson, Geoffrey Edward Harvey
- Geburtstag
- 1905-03-02
- Todestag
- 1985-11-25
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- Pelynt, Cornwall, England, UK
- Sterbeort
- Broad Town, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Wohnorte
- Pelynt, Cornwall, England (birth)
Broad Town, Wiltshire, England (death) - Ausbildung
- Oxford University (St Edmund Hall)
- Berufe
- poet
journalist
editor
literary critic - Beziehungen
- Grigson, Jane (wife)
Grigson, Sophie (daughter) - Organisationen
- Yorkshire Post
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
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Styles change of course, and no one would write a book now the way Grigson does (would a modern author let him quote from Sir Thomas Browne's "Urne Burial"? and not only quote him but use hm as a kind of guiding star?)
If one can set aside the tone (academic uncle or friend of the family, genuinely engaged and engaging but talking down, somewhat) it rarely jarred as actually condescending (although of course I'm almost of an age to have had this 2nd edition new). Often, in fact, there was a story or nugget of information that was new to me, briskly and clearly explained. Nowhere more so than the outline of the geological changes to Britain since the last Ice Age, when it first became an island. The changes to the population are sketched in too, more clearly than I can recall seeing in any other introductory work. So it's still of practical value, I think.… (mehr)