Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985)
Auteur van The Faber Book of Love Poems
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Ideas: A Volume of Ideas, Living, Dying, Dead & Fossil, Which We Are Moved By or Were Moved By (1954) 19 exemplaren
People : a volume of the good, bad, great & eccentric who illustrate the admirable diversity of man (1954) 15 exemplaren
Places: a volume of travel in space and time; places which have delighted, intrigued, and intimidated men (1954) 14 exemplaren
Things; a volume of objects devised by man's genius which are the measure of his civilization (1954) 12 exemplaren
Looking and finding, and collecting and reading and investigating and much else (1958) 12 exemplaren
The Shell Guide to Trees and Shrubs. Painted by S. R. Badmin. Text by G. Grigson (1958) 5 exemplaren
English Villages in Colour 5 exemplaren
Shell Nature Studies: Fossils, Insects and Reptiles 4 exemplaren
English Country A Series of Illustrations 4 exemplaren
The Shell guide to wild life 3 exemplaren
Places of the Mind 2 exemplaren
Poets in their pride 2 exemplaren
English romantic art 2 exemplaren
About Britain. [Guidebooks] 2 exemplaren
English Drawing from Samuel Cooper to Gwen John 2 exemplaren
The three kings : a Christmas book of carols, poems and pieces, chosen with an account of the legend (1958) — Redacteur — 2 exemplaren
William Barnes 1 exemplaar
Ingestion of ice-cream : and other poems 1 exemplaar
Aphrodite: Die Biographie 1 exemplaar
Village England 1 exemplaar
New Verse: An anthology — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar
Penguin Modern Painters: Henry Moore 1 exemplaar
The isles of Scilly, and other poems 1 exemplaar
Several observations : thirty five poems 1 exemplaar
Metropolitan Museum Of Art Miniatures, Corot 1 exemplaar
English Excursions 1 exemplaar
John Craxton : paintings and drawings 1 exemplaar
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Selected Fables of Jean de la Fontaine with 48 illustrations (1668) — Introductie, sommige edities — 483 exemplaren
Selected Poems of John Dryden (Crown Classics) — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar
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- Officiële naam
- Grigson, Geoffrey Edward Harvey
- Geboortedatum
- 1905-03-02
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1985-11-25
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- England, UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Pelynt, Cornwall, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Broad Town, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- Pelynt, Cornwall, England (birth)
Broad Town, Wiltshire, England (death) - Opleiding
- Oxford University (St Edmund Hall)
- Beroepen
- poet
journalist
editor
literary critic - Relaties
- Grigson, Jane (wife)
Grigson, Sophie (daughter)
Rayner, Mary (niece) - Organisaties
- Yorkshire Post
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
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- 105
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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.… (meer)