George Barker (1) (1913–1991)
Auteur de Penguin Modern Poets 3: George Barker, Martin Bell, Charles Causley
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George Barker (1) a été combiné avec George Granville Barker.
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Photo from 1945 (Poetry since 1939, British Council)
Œuvres de George Barker
Les œuvres ont été combinées en George Granville Barker.
Poems of VIII decades. Poems of 8 decades. 1 exemplaire
Seven poems 1 exemplaire
Thirty Preliminary Poems 1 exemplaire
Two Plays 1 exemplaire
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Les œuvres ont été combinées en George Granville Barker.
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Barker, George Granville
- Date de naissance
- 1913-02-26
- Date de décès
- 1991-10-27
- Lieu de sépulture
- St. Mary's Church, Itteringham, Norfolk, England, UK
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- England
UK - Lieu de naissance
- Loughton, Essex, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Itteringham, Norfolk, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Loughton, Essex, England, UK
Battersea, London, England, UK - Études
- Regent Street Polytechnic, London
- Professions
- teacher
poet
essayist
playwright
novelist
author (tout afficher 7)
writer - Relations
- Smart, Elizabeth (lover)
Barker, Christopher (Son)
Barker, Sebastian (son)
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 36
- Aussi par
- 12
- Membres
- 269
- Popularité
- #85,899
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 28
- Favoris
- 2
The selection of Causley in PMP3 includes must of his best-known early poems, such as the unforgettable "Timothy Winters", a poem you feel should be hanging on the wall of every social-worker dealing with child poverty, the enigmatic sonnet "The prisoners of love" ("The prisoners rise and rinse their skies of stone / But in their jailers' eyes they meet their own"), the ever-quotable "The seasons in North Cornwall" and the gloriously tricky "Nursery rhyme of innocence and experience". All wonderful, and at least a little bit perplexing.
On this re-reading I was also stopped in my tracks by "At the grave of John Clare", which must date from Causley's time training as a teacher in Peterborough, where he imagines Clare walking "With one foot in the furrow" and "the poetry bursting like a diamond bomb". Quite.… (plus d'informations)