Collected Poems, 1963-1980 By Geoffrey Grigson

Collected poems, 1963-1980 book list

Grigson was educated at St Johns School Leatherhead and at St Edmund Hall Oxford He first came to prominence in the 1930s as a poet then as editor from 1933 of the influential poetry magazine New Verse A teacher journalist and broadcaster later in life he was a noted critic reviewer for the New York Review of Books in particular and compiler of many inventive and innovative anthologies He published 13 collections of poetry and wrote on travel on art notably works on Samuel Palmer Wyndham Lewis and Henry Moore on the English countryside and on botany among other subjects Geoffrey Grigsons first wife was Frances Galt who died in 1937 of tuberculosis With her he founded New Verse They had one daughter Caroline wh Grigson was educated at St John s School Leatherhead and at St Edmund Hall Oxford He first came to prominence in the 1930s as a poet then as editor from 1933 of the influential poetry magazine New Verse A teacher journalist and broadcaster later in life he was a noted critic reviewer for the New York Review of Books in particular and compiler of many inventive and innovative anthologies He published 13 collections of poetry and wrote on travel on art notably works on Samuel Palmer Wyndham Lewis and Henry Moore on the English countryside and on botany among other subjects Geoffrey Grigson s first wife was Frances Galt who died in 1937 of tuberculosis With her he founded New Verse They had one daughter Caroline who was married to the designer Colin Banks Grigson s second marriage was to Berta Bertschy Emma Kunert who bore him two children Anna and Lionel Grigson the jazz musician and educator Following their divorce Grigson s third and last marriage was to Jane Grigson n e McIntire 1928 90 the writer on food and cookery Their daughter is the cookery writer Sophie Grigson. Collected poems, 1963-1980 kindle books Geoffrey Grigson in his later life lived partly in Wiltshire England and partly in Tr o a village in the Loir et Cher d partement in France which features in his poetry He died in Wiltshire in 1985 site_link Text English Portugese translation Collected Poems 1963 1980