Denis Donoghue, 7 March 1985
Montaigne’s Tower, and Other Poems by Geoffrey Grigson.
Secker, 72 pp., £5.95, October 1984, 0 436 18806 6Show More Collected Poems: 1963-1980 by Geoffrey Grigson.
Allison and Busby, 256 pp., £4.95, October 1984, 0 85031 557 3Show More The Faber Book of Reflective Verse edited by Geoffrey Grigson.
Faber, 238 pp., £7.95, October 1984, 0 571 13299 5Show More Blessings, Kicks and Curses by Geoffrey Grigson.
Allison and Busby, 279 pp., £4.95, October 1984, 0 85031 558 1Show More The Private Art: A Poetry Notebook by Geoffrey Grigson.
Allison and Busby, 231 pp., £4.95, October 1984, 9780850315592Show More Before the Romantics: An Anthology of the Enlightenment by Geoffrey Grigson.
Salamander, 349 pp., £5.95, September 1984, 0 907540 59 7Show More Show More“... and rancour. There is evidence that he enjoys walking, curlews, turtledoves, bullfinches, owls, Thomas Moore’s ‘Thee, Thee, Only Thee’ and much that France still offers. There are writers he likes, most of them dead: Ronsard, John Clare, William Barnes (‘love of whose poems seems to me a litmus paper of the genuine’), Auden (‘the greatest of my ...”