Geoffrey Grigson

Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (Pelynt, 2 marzo 1905 – Broad Town, 25 novembre 1985) è stato un poeta britannico.

Biografia

Sotto l'influsso di Wystan Hugh Auden scrisse Sotto la scogliera (1943), ma successivamente adottò una tecnica più matura e raffinata, come emerge da Legenda Suecana (1953).

Negli ultimi anni si dedicò a saggi come Christopher Smart (1961), sul poeta britannico.

Era sposato con la scrittrice Jane Grigson.

Opere

• Several Observations (1939)
• Under the Cliff, and Other Poems (1943)
• Henry Moore (1944)
• Wild Flowers in Britain (1944)
• The Isles of Scilly and Other Poems (1946)
• The Mint: a Miscellany of Literature, Art and Criticism (1946)
• Samuel Palmer: the Visionary Years (1947)
• Wild Flowers in Britain (1947)
• John Craxton. Paintings and Drawings (1948)
• An English Farmhouse and Its Neighbourhood (1948)
• Places of the Mind (1949)
• The Crest on the Silver: an Autobiography (1950)
• The Victorians: an Anthology (1950)
• Flowers of the Meadow (1950)
• Thornton's Temple of Flora (1951)
• Essays From the Air: 29 Broadcast Talks (1951)
• A Master of Our Time: a Study of Wyndham Lewis (1951)
• Gardenage, or the Plants of Ninhursaga (1952)
• Legenda Suecana. Twenty-odd Poems (1953)
• Freedom of the Parish (1954)
• The Englishman's Flora (1955)
• The Shell Guide to Flowers of the Countryside (1955)
• Painted Caves (1957)
• The Shell Guide to Trees and Shrubs (1958)
• English Villages in Colour (1958)
• Looking and Finding (1958)
• The Shell Guide to Wild Life (1959)
• A Herbal of All Sorts (1959)
• The Cherry Tree (1959)
• English Excursions (1960)
• Samuel Palmer's Valley of Vision (1960)
• The Shell Country Book (1962)
• Poets in Their Pride (1962)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1962)
• Collected Poems 1924–1962 (1963)
• O Rare Mankind! (1963)
• The Shell Nature Book (1964)
• Shapes and Stories con Jane Grigson (1965)
• The Shell Country Alphabet (1966)
• William Allingham's Diary (1967)
• A Skull in Salop, and Other Poems (1967)
• An Ingestion of Ice Cream and Other Poems (1969)
• Shapes and People – A Book about Pictures (1969)
• Poems and Poets (1969)
• Notes from an Odd Country (1970)
• Discoveries of Bones and Stones (1971)
• Sad Grave of an Imperial Mongoose (1973)
• The First Folio (1973)
• The Contrary View: Glimpses of Fudge and Gold (1974)
• A Dictionary of English Plant Names (and some products of plants) (1974)
• Angles and Circles and Other Poems (1974)
• Britain Observed: the Landscape Through Artists' Eyes (1975)
• The Goddess of Love: The Birth, Triumph, Death and Return of Aphrodite (1978)
• History of Him (1980)
• Blessings, Kicks and Curses: a critical collection (1982)
• Collected Poems 1963–1980 (1982)
• The Private Art: a Poetry Notebook (1982)
• The Cornish Dancer and Other Poems (1982)
• Geoffrey Grigson's Countryside (1982)
• Recollections, Mainly of Writers and Artists (1984)
• The English Year from Diaries and Letters (1984)
• Country Writings (1984)
• Montaigne's Tower and Other Poems (1984)
• Persephone's Flowers and Other Poems (1986)

Premi e riconoscimenti

• Duff Cooper Prize: 1971 vincitore con Discoveries of Bones and Stones

Collegamenti esterni

• Grigson, Geoffrey, su Treccani.it – Enciclopedie on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
• (EN) Geoffrey Grigson, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
• (EN) Opere di Geoffrey Grigson / Geoffrey Grigson (altra versione), su Open Library, Internet Archive.
• (EN) Bibliografia di Geoffrey Grigson, su Internet Speculative Fiction Database, Al von Ruff.