The Faber Book of Epigrams \u0026 Epitaphs By Geoffrey Grigson

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Grigson was educated at St Johns School Leatherhead and at St Edmund Hall Oxford He first came to prominence in the 1930s as a poet then as editor from 1933 of the influential poetry magazine New Verse A teacher journalist and broadcaster later in life he was a noted critic reviewer for the New York Review of Books in particular and compiler of many inventive and innovative anthologies He published 13 collections of poetry and wrote on travel on art notably works on Samuel Palmer Wyndham Lewis and Henry Moore on the English countryside and on botany among other subjects Geoffrey Grigsons first wife was Frances Galt who died in 1937 of tuberculosis With her he founded New Verse They had one daughter Caroline wh Grigson was educated at St John s School Leatherhead and at St Edmund Hall Oxford He first came to prominence in the 1930s as a poet then as editor from 1933 of the influential poetry magazine New Verse A teacher journalist and broadcaster later in life he was a noted critic reviewer for the New York Review of Books in particular and compiler of many inventive and innovative anthologies He published 13 collections of poetry and wrote on travel on art notably works on Samuel Palmer Wyndham Lewis and Henry Moore on the English countryside and on botany among other subjects Geoffrey Grigson s first wife was Frances Galt who died in 1937 of tuberculosis With her he founded New Verse They had one daughter Caroline who was married to the designer Colin Banks Grigson s second marriage was to Berta Bertschy Emma Kunert who bore him two children Anna and Lionel Grigson the jazz musician and educator Following their divorce Grigson s third and last marriage was to Jane Grigson n e McIntire 1928 90 the writer on food and cookery Their daughter is the cookery writer Sophie Grigson. Kindle the faber book of epigrams & epitaphs list Geoffrey Grigson in his later life lived partly in Wiltshire England and partly in Tr o a village in the Loir et Cher d partement in France which features in his poetry He died in Wiltshire in 1985 site_link Triumphant Demons stand and Angels start To see the abysses of the human heart Landor English poetry is supposed to be short in epigrams But here there is a choice of than 700 epigrams and epitaphs which are epigrams of a special kind from the sixteenth century to our time familiar unfamiliar and even unknown This ancient art of witty and satirical and also tender compression an art as old as Plato and as young as the youngest living poet has found its English masters in Herrick Prior Pope Blake Burns Walter Savage Landor Pat and in twentieth century masters Belloc and Robert Graves all poets of strong liking or disliking But poet after poet major and minor and anon has hated loved laughed ridiculed in couplets and quatrains taking his cue from the great Latin epigrammatist Martial from the Latin epigrammatists of the Renaissance in Elizabethan times every Winchester schoolboy was expecting to be able to write a neat Latin epigram or from the Greek Anthology of from his own English and French predecessors Here lie the bones of Elizabeth Charlotte That was born a virgin and died a harlot She was aye a virgin at seventeen An extraordinary thing for Aberdeen Anon He served his God so faithfully and well That now he sees him face to face in hell Belloc The Faber Book of Epigrams u0026 EpitaphsOne of my favorite books A lot of funny and poignant verses inside. The faber book of epigrams & epitaphscript Here lie the bones of Elizabeth CharlotteThat was born a virgin and died a harlot, Kindle The Faber Book of Epigrams & epitaphs definition She was aye a virgin at seventeenAn extraordinary thing for Aberdeen The Faber Book of Epigrams u0026 Epitaphs