Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985)
Forfatter af The Faber Book of Love Poems
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Værker af Geoffrey Grigson
Ideas: A Volume of Ideas, Living, Dying, Dead & Fossil, Which We Are Moved By or Were Moved By (1954) 19 eksemplarer
People : a volume of the good, bad, great & eccentric who illustrate the admirable diversity of man (1954) 15 eksemplarer
Places: a volume of travel in space and time; places which have delighted, intrigued, and intimidated men (1954) 14 eksemplarer
Things; a volume of objects devised by man's genius which are the measure of his civilization (1954) 12 eksemplarer
Looking and finding, and collecting and reading and investigating and much else (1958) 12 eksemplarer
The Shell Guide to Trees and Shrubs. Painted by S. R. Badmin. Text by G. Grigson (1958) 5 eksemplarer
English Villages in Colour 5 eksemplarer
Shell Nature Studies: Fossils, Insects and Reptiles 4 eksemplarer
English Country A Series of Illustrations 4 eksemplarer
The Shell guide to wild life 3 eksemplarer
Places of the Mind 2 eksemplarer
The mint : a miscellany of literature, art and criticism 2 eksemplarer
Poets in their pride 2 eksemplarer
English romantic art 2 eksemplarer
About Britain. [Guidebooks] 2 eksemplarer
English Drawing from Samuel Cooper to Gwen John 2 eksemplarer
The three kings : a Christmas book of carols, poems and pieces, chosen with an account of the legend (1958) — Redaktør — 2 eksemplarer
William Barnes 1 eksemplar
Ingestion of ice-cream : and other poems 1 eksemplar
Aphrodite: Die Biographie 1 eksemplar
Village England 1 eksemplar
New Verse: An anthology — Redaktør — 1 eksemplar
Penguin Modern Painters: Henry Moore 1 eksemplar
The isles of Scilly, and other poems 1 eksemplar
Several observations : thirty five poems 1 eksemplar
Metropolitan Museum Of Art Miniatures, Corot 1 eksemplar
English Excursions 1 eksemplar
John Craxton : paintings and drawings 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Selected Fables of Jean de la Fontaine with 48 illustrations (1668) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 482 eksemplarer
Selected Poems of John Dryden (Crown Classics) — Redaktør — 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Grigson, Geoffrey Edward Harvey
- Fødselsdato
- 1905-03-02
- Dødsdag
- 1985-11-25
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (til kort)
- England, UK
- Fødested
- Pelynt, Cornwall, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Broad Town, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Bopæl
- Pelynt, Cornwall, England (birth)
Broad Town, Wiltshire, England (death) - Uddannelse
- Oxford University (St Edmund Hall)
- Erhverv
- poet
journalist
editor
literary critic - Relationer
- Grigson, Jane (wife)
Grigson, Sophie (daughter)
Rayner, Mary (niece) - Organisationer
- Yorkshire Post
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
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- 19
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- 1,381
- Popularitet
- #18,624
- Vurdering
- 3.6
- Anmeldelser
- 8
- ISBN
- 105
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- 1
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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.… (mere)