Geoffrey Grigson
# 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
