"My rebellious and imperfect eye" : : observing Geoffrey Grigson / / edited by C. C. Barfoot and R. M. Healey.

"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 cri...

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Superior document:DQR Studies in Literature ; 33
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Editions Rodopi B.Y.,, 2002.
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:DQR studies in literature ; 33.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.