Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985)
Auteur de The Faber Book of Love Poems
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Séries
Œuvres de Geoffrey Grigson
Before the Romantics: An Anthology of the Enlightenment (1946) — Directeur de publication — 23 exemplaires
The Lakes to Tyneside (About Britain series;no.10) (1951) — Directeur de publication — 22 exemplaires
The Faber Book of Poems and Places (Faber Paperbacks) (1980) — Directeur de publication — 19 exemplaires
Ideas: A Volume of Ideas, Living, Dying, Dead & Fossil, Which We Are Moved By or Were Moved By (1954) 19 exemplaires
People : a volume of the good, bad, great & eccentric who illustrate the admirable diversity of man (1954) 15 exemplaires
Places: a volume of travel in space and time; places which have delighted, intrigued, and intimidated men (1954) 14 exemplaires
Things; a volume of objects devised by man's genius which are the measure of his civilization (1954) 12 exemplaires
Looking and finding, and collecting and reading and investigating and much else (1958) 12 exemplaires
The Shell Guide to Trees and Shrubs. Painted by S. R. Badmin. Text by G. Grigson (1958) 5 exemplaires
English Villages in Colour 5 exemplaires
Shell Nature Studies: Fossils, Insects and Reptiles 4 exemplaires
English Country A Series of Illustrations 4 exemplaires
The Shell guide to wild life 3 exemplaires
Places of the Mind 2 exemplaires
The mint : a miscellany of literature, art and criticism 2 exemplaires
Poets in their pride 2 exemplaires
English romantic art 2 exemplaires
About Britain. [Guidebooks] 2 exemplaires
English Drawing from Samuel Cooper to Gwen John 2 exemplaires
The three kings : a Christmas book of carols, poems and pieces, chosen with an account of the legend (1958) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
William Barnes 1 exemplaire
Ingestion of ice-cream : and other poems 1 exemplaire
Aphrodite: Die Biographie 1 exemplaire
Village England 1 exemplaire
New Verse: An anthology — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Penguin Modern Painters: Henry Moore 1 exemplaire
The isles of Scilly, and other poems 1 exemplaire
Several observations : thirty five poems 1 exemplaire
Metropolitan Museum Of Art Miniatures, Corot 1 exemplaire
English Excursions 1 exemplaire
John Craxton : paintings and drawings 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Poems of Walter Savage Landor (Classic Reprint) (1964) — Directeur de publication — 14 exemplaires
Poet to Poet : Charles Cotton, selected by Geoffrey Grigson (1975) — Directeur de publication — 11 exemplaires
Selected Poems of John Dryden (Crown Classics) — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Grigson, Geoffrey Edward Harvey
- Date de naissance
- 1905-03-02
- Date de décès
- 1985-11-25
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Pelynt, Cornwall, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Broad Town, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Pelynt, Cornwall, England (birth)
Broad Town, Wiltshire, England (death) - Études
- Oxford University (St Edmund Hall)
- Professions
- poet
journalist
editor
literary critic - Relations
- Grigson, Jane (wife)
Grigson, Sophie (daughter) - Organisations
- Yorkshire Post
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 108
- Aussi par
- 19
- Membres
- 1,381
- Popularité
- #18,624
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 105
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 1
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.… (plus d'informations)