Duff Cooper Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 16 (1971) Winner
Geoffrey Grigson
ジェフリー・グリグソン
Jefurī Guriguson
Pen Names:
Martin Boldero（Pseudonym used for poems published in New Verse magazine）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1905-03-02 （Pelynt, Cornwall）
- Died
- 1985-11-25 （Broad Town, Wiltshire） age 80
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Church of England
- Residence History
- Pelynt, Cornwall → Wiltshire → Trôo, Loir-et-Cher, France
Career
- Occupations
- Poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, anthologist, naturalist
- Active Years
- 1924-1985
- Affiliations
- Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) co-founder
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St John's School, Leatherhead | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
| St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford | — | — | — | 1920年代後半 | United Kingdom |
St John's School, Leatherhead
Country:
United Kingdom
Secondary school
St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
Period:
1920年代後半
Year of Graduation:
1928
Country:
United Kingdom
University
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Duff Cooper Prize | Discoveries of Bones and Stones | — | — | 受賞 |
Duff Cooper Prize
1971
Work:
Discoveries of Bones and Stones
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Samuel Palmer: The Visionary Years
1947 Art criticismPoetic chronicle of Samuel Palmer's early visionary works.
RomanticismNature's abundanceRural idyll
The Crest on the Silver
1950 AutobiographyHis autobiography.
ChildhoodCornwallNature
Discoveries of Bones and Stones
1971 PoetryPoetry collection that won the Duff Cooper Prize.
BonesStonesNature
Bibliography
- The Arts To-day
- Several Observations
- Under the Cliff, and Other Poems
- Henry Moore
- Visionary Poems and Passages or The Poet's Eye
- Wild Flowers in Britain
- The Isles of Scilly and Other Poems
- The Mint: a Miscellany of Literature, Art and Criticism
- Before the Romantics: an Anthology of the Enlightenment
- Samuel Palmer: the Visionary Years
- John Craxton. Paintings and Drawings
- An English Farmhouse and Its Neighbourhood
- Places of the Mind
- Poems of John Clare's Madness
- Poetry of the Present: an Anthology of the 'Thirties and After
- The Crest on the Silver: an Autobiography
- The Shell Country Book
- Samuel Palmer's Valley of Vision
- Collected Poems 1924–1962
- Discoveries of Bones and Stones
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Fiercely combativeDetailed descriptions of nature and countrysidePoetic prose
- Recurring Motifs
- NatureWild flowersBones and stonesCountrysideSamuel Palmer's visionary art
Legacy
Influential 20th-century British poet, editor of New Verse featuring Auden and Dylan Thomas, and leading scholar of Samuel Palmer. Known for love of countryside and nature in his work.
In Popular Culture
- Featured in Poets in the Landscape exhibition at Pallant House Gallery, 2007
- British Museum 2017 exhibition titled after his book Places of the Mind
Trivia
- Youngest of seven brothers; five died in the World Wars, one of the highest losses by any British family
- Lived part-time in a troglodyte cave house in Trôo, France
- On Desert Island Discs, chose pâté de foie gras as luxury item