title: Geoffrey Grigson
text: # 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
  