"My Rebellious and Imperfect Eye"

Observing Geoffrey Grigson
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-420-1358-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 305 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

Reihe: DQR Studies in Literature

“My Rebellious and Imperfect Eye”: Observing Geoffrey Grigson acknowledges and celebrates Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985) as an all-round man, as a distinctive lyrical poet, as the exact observer of nature and of men, in the past and in the present, as a pioneering literary critic and art critic, as an unrivalled anthologist, as a ground-breaking editor, as a broadcaster, as a botanist - the list could be extended. In an unsurpassed number of diverse areas of artistic and natural culture, Grigson passionately communicated all he experienced and felt to as wide an audience as possible. Therefore, as the centenary of his birth comes in view, it seems singularly appropriate to celebrate Geoffrey Grigson's unique contribution to the twentieth-century cultural scene. In a writing career spanning nearly sixty years, he was unmatched by any of his contemporaries for a range which reaches from the edges of journalism into and beyond the academic world.
In prose and verse, the nineteen contributors to this volume, amongst them some of the most distinguished names in contemporary English letters, would hardly claim to have covered every aspect of Grigson's genius, but they do manage to touch upon most of the territory he illuminated. The volume contains a full bibliography of Grigson's work and a number of his drawings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barfoot, C.C.

Healey, R.M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

References and Illustrations
Epigraphs
Tom Paulin: Preface
1. C.C. Barfoot and R.M. Healey: Introduction
2. Jeremy Hooker: Geoffrey Grigson - English Writer
Anthony Thwaite: The Mole at Kilpeck Church
3. C.C. Barfoot: “Some Few Things I Have Known Truly Up to Now in My Way”: Geoffrey Grigson and the “Benediction of Reality”
4. Francis Scarfe: Grigson Revisited
5. Peter Scupham: Making Stones Live: Geoffrey Grigson's “Moments of Being”
Peter Scupham: Looking and Finding
6. Philip Hobsbaum: Grigson, Auden and the Promised Land
7. C.C. Barfoot: “Old Parodies of Love Were then Replaced”: Geoffrey Grigson 's Erotic “Legenda”
Cedric Barfoot: For Suzanne
6. Seamus Perry: “The Grandeur of the Actual”: Grigson, “Negative Capability”, and Romantic Sensibility
Christopher Martin: Meeting Geoffrey and Summer Haiku
9. John Mole: “Items of Best Being”: On the Notebooks of Geoffrey Grigson
John Mole: Sighted
10. R.M. Healey: “The Lunatic House of the BBC”: Grigson as Broadcaster
11. Stuart Sillars: Geoffrey Grigson as Art Critic
12. Glyn Pursglove: The Finder of Crystals: Geoffrey Grigson as Anthologist
Kevin Crossley-Holland: The Grain of Things
13. Peter Levi: Stone, Fossil and Painting: Grigson and Prehistory
14. Tess Darwin: Gilding the Dullest Cabbage: Notes on a “Botanical Bowerbird”
Jem Poster: Botanist
15. James McGonigal: Teaching Geoffrey Grigson: A Thing or Two
Alan Brownjohn: Considering Grigson
16. R.M.Healey: A Geoffrey Grigson Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index: Geoffrey Grigson’'s Publications
Index: General