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Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (2 March 1905 – 25 November 1985) was a British poet, writer, editor, critic, anthologist and naturalist. In the 1930s he was editor of the influential magazine ''New Verse'', and went on to produce 13 collections of his own poetry as well as compiling numerous anthologies, among other published works on subjects including art, travel and the countryside. At various times he was involved in teaching, journalism and broadcasting. Fiercely combative, he made many literary enemies for his dogmatic views.〔("Geoffrey Grigson" ), St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.〕 ==Life== Grigson was born at the vicarage in Pelynt, a village near Looe in Cornwall. His childhood in rural Cornwall had a significant influence on his poetry and writing in later life. As a boy, his love of things of nature (plants, bones and stones) was sparked at the house of family friends at Polperro who were painters and amateur naturalists. He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, and at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.〔 After graduating from Oxford University, Grigson took a job at the London office of the ''Yorkshire Post'', from where he moved on to become literary editor of the ''Morning Post''.〔Adrian Caesar, ("Geoffrey Grigson's ''New Verse''" ), in ''Dividing Lines: Poetry, Class, and Ideology in the 1930s'', Manchester University Press, 1991 (pp. 107–121), pp. 109, 111.〕 He first came to prominence in the 1930s as a poet, then as editor from 1933 to 1939 of the influential poetry magazine ''New Verse''.〔("Geoffrey Grigson" ), ''Encyclopaedia Britannica''.〕 During World War II he worked in the editorial department of the BBC Monitoring Service at Wood Norton near Evesham, Worcestershire and at Bristol.〔Julian Symons, "Grigson, Geoffrey Edward Harvey (1905–1985)", rev. ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009, (accessed 2 December 2013. )〕 In 1946 he was one of the founders of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, together with Roland Penrose, Herbert Read, Peter Watson and Peter Gregory, in 1946.〔("History" ), ICA website.〕〔Barry Miles, (''London Calling: A Countercultural History of London since 1945'' ), Atlantic Books, 2010.〕 In 1951 Grigson curated a touring exhibition of drawings and watercolours drawn from the British Council Collection.〔("British Drawings and Watercolours of the 20th Century from the Collection of the British Council" ), Visual Arts, British Council.〕 Later in life he was a noted critic, reviewer (for the ''New York Review of Books'' in particular), and compiler of numerous poetry anthologies. He published 13 collections of poetry, and wrote on travel, on art (notably works on Samuel Palmer, Wyndham Lewis and Henry Moore; he also had a volatile friendship with the painter John Piper),〔Frances Spaulding, (''John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art'' ), OUP, 2009, pp. 126–27.〕 on the English countryside, and on botany, among other subjects. After the repression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, at the initiative of Stephen Spender, Grigson joined a group of British writers and artists, who applied for visas to visit dissidents in Hungary.〔Letter to the Times, 15 November 1956.〕 The visas were refused. Grigson was the castaway featured in an edition of Roy Plomley's ''Desert Island Discs'' first broadcast on 16 October 1982. His chosen records were: Joseph Haydn, ''String Quartet in F major'', Op. 3/5 "Serenade" (Janáček Quartet); Benjamin Britten, ''Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings'' (soloist Peter Pears, Dennis Brain; Boyd Neel String Orchestra, conductor Benjamin Britten); Henry Purcell, "When I am laid in earth" ("Dido's Lament"), from ''Dido and Aeneas'' (soloist Victoria de los Ángeles; English Chamber Orchestra, conductor John Barbirolli); Joseph Haydn, "She Never Told Her Love" (Canzonetta) (soloist Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten) – picked as Grigson's favourite; Joseph Haydn, ''String Quartet in D major'' (Tátrai Quartet); Georges Bizet, ''Jeux d'enfants'' (Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conductor Jean Martinon); Benjamin Britten, "Death Be Not Proud" (from ''The Holy Sonnets of John Donne''), soloist Peter Pears, Zorian String Quartet, conductor Benjamin Britten; Giuseppe Verdi, "Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate" (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from ''Nabucco'' (La Scala Chorus and Orchestra). His chosen book was ''The Oxford English Dictionary'', and his luxury item was Pâté de foie gras.〔(Desert Island Discs Castaway Archive ), BBC Radio 4, October 1982.〕 In 1984, he was interviewed by Hermione Lee in an edition of Channel 4's Book Four.〔("Geoffrey Grigson interview, 1984" ), YouTube.〕 Geoffrey Grigson in his later life lived partly in Wiltshire, England, and partly in Trôo, a village in the Loir-et-Cher département in France, which features in his poetry. He died in 1985 in Broad Town, Wiltshire, and is buried there in Christ Church Churchyard.〔("Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985)" ), The Literary Cemetery.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geoffrey Grigson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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