George Barker (1) (1913–1991)
Forfatter af Penguin Modern Poets 3: George Barker, Martin Bell, Charles Causley
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George Barker (1) has been aliased into George Granville Barker.
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Image credit: Photo from 1945 (Poetry since 1939, British Council)
Værker af George Barker
Works have been aliased into George Granville Barker.
Poems of VIII decades. Poems of 8 decades. 1 eksemplar
Seven poems 1 eksemplar
Thirty Preliminary Poems 1 eksemplar
Two Plays 1 eksemplar
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Works have been aliased into George Granville Barker.
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- Juridisk navn
- Barker, George Granville
- Fødselsdato
- 1913-02-26
- Dødsdag
- 1991-10-27
- Begravelsessted
- St. Mary's Church, Itteringham, Norfolk, England, UK
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- England
UK - Fødested
- Loughton, Essex, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Itteringham, Norfolk, England, UK
- Bopæl
- Loughton, Essex, England, UK
Battersea, London, England, UK - Uddannelse
- Regent Street Polytechnic, London
- Erhverv
- teacher
poet
essayist
playwright
novelist
author (vis alle 7)
writer - Relationer
- Smart, Elizabeth (lover)
Barker, Christopher (Son)
Barker, Sebastian (son)
Medlemmer
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 36
- Also by
- 12
- Medlemmer
- 269
- Popularitet
- #85,899
- Vurdering
- 4.0
- Anmeldelser
- 4
- ISBN
- 28
- Udvalgt
- 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.… (mere)