Geoffrey Grigson ganó prominencia por primera vez en la década de 1930 como poeta y, más tarde, como influyente editor de una revista de poesía. Como maestro, periodista y locutor de radio, se convirtió en un destacado crítico y reseñador, especialmente para The New York Review of Books. Su extensa obra abarcó poesía, escritura de viajes, crítica de arte y estudios sobre el campo inglés y la botánica. Grigson también fue célebre por sus antologías inventivas e innovadoras, que moldearon significativamente el panorama literario.
Originally published in 1948, An English Farmhouse is Geoffrey Grigson's careful survey of the old English farmhouse and its associated buildings. Grigson paints a vivid picture of rural life in the preceding centuries, and creates a delicate weave of social history.
Geoffrey Grigson was arguably the century's greatest poetry anthologist - a man whose breadth of reading was equalled only by his infallible taste. To every anthology, Grigson brought his habitual enthusiasm and his flair for the recondite. The Faber Book of Love Poems is no exception - a task undertaken con amore by a well-furnished mind and an experienced heart.
The English writers in which the author has included (among many anonymous contributions) range from Skelton through Peacock and Lear to Stevie Smith; from Europe come Rabelais, Christian Morgenstern, Hans Arp and Robert Desnos. But, as Mr. Grigson points out, it is inappropriate to be too serious or too solemn about writing which aims to poke fun and give pleasure.
This varied collection of satirical verse contains 232 selections by writers from John Skelton and John Donne to Louis MacNeice and Clive James. Grigson--a well-known poet and critic--has chosen verse by such master satirists as John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Charles Churchill, and Lord Byron, and has included such classics as "Mac Flecknoe" and "Beppo."
The Classic Companion To Rural Britain
