Male : Poet, Man of Letters and Critic. Married Frances Galt 1929 (died of TB 1937). Remarried 1937. Married Jane Grigson in 1950's

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Pelynt, Cornwall

Date of Birth : 1905 Date of Death : 1985 Age : 80

Other Work : Journalist. Founder in 1933 of "New Verse"

Education : St John's, Leatherhead & St Edmund's Hall, Oxford (Got a 3rd)

1934-1940
(Ed) The Year's Poetry 1934 (1934 John Lane)
(Ed) The Arts Today (1935 John Lane)
(Ed) The Year's Poetry 1937 (1937 JL) - with D K Roberts
(Ed) Francis Bacon's Essays (1937 OUP World Classics)
(Ed) The Year's Poetry 1938 (1938 JL) - with D K Roberts
(Ed) New Verse : Anthology (1939 Faber) - incl 3 poems by Dylan Thomas
Several Observations (1939 Cresset Press) - Henry Moore d/w

1941-1945
(Ed) George Sturt's Journals (1941 Cresset Press)
(Ed) The Romantics : An Anthology (1942 Routledge)
Under the Cliff & Other Poems (1943 Routledge)
Henry Moore (1944 Penguin Modern Painters Series)
Wild Flowers in Britain (1944 Collins Britain in Pictures Series)
(Ed) Visionary Poems and Passages, or The Poet's Eye (1944 Muller) - John Craxton

1946-1948
The Isles of Scilly & other Poems (1946 Routledge)
(Ed) Before the Romantics : An Anthology of the Enlightenment (1946 Routledge)
(Ed) The Mint : A Miscellany of Literature, Art & Criticism (1946-8 Routledge) - 2 vols
English Romantic Art (1947 Arts Council of GB - catalogue
Samuel Palmer : The Visionary Years (1947 Kegan Paul)
The Harp of Aeolus & other Essays on Art, Literature & Nature (1947 Routledge 15/-)
The English Farmhouse and its Neighbourhood (1948 Max Parrish)
The Scilly Isles (1948 Paul Elek)
John Craxton : Paintings and Drawings (1948 Horizon, London)

1949-1950
(Ed) Poems of John Clare's Madness (1949 Routledge)
(Ed) Poetry of the Present (1949 Phoenix House)
Places of the Mind (1949 Routledge)
Flowers of the Meadow (1950 King Penguin) - R Tanner
The Crest on the Silver (1950 Cresset Press) - Autobiography
Horse and Rider (1950 Thames & Hudson)
English Cathedrals (1950 Thames & Hudson)
(Ed) John Clare : Selected Poems (1950 Routledge)
(Ed) John Dryden : Selected Poems (1950 Grey Walls Press)
(Ed) George Crabbe : Selected Poems (1950 GWP)
(Ed) Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Selected Poems (1950 GWP)
(Ed) William Barnes : Selected Poems (1950 Routledge)
(Ed) The Victorians (1950 Routledge)

1951-1953
(Ed) Thornton's Temple of Flora (1951 Collins) (1951 Collins - de Luxe Ltd Ed)
A Master of Our Time : A Study of Wyndham Lewis (1951 Methuen pb)
West Country (1951 Collins About Britain Series No.1)
Wessex (1951 Collins About Britain Series No.2)
Essays from the Air (1951 Routledge & Kegan Paul)
Gardenage, or the Plants of Ninhursaga (1952 Routledge)
English Country (1952 Batsford)
The Female Form in Painting (1953 Thames & Hudson)
Legenda Suecana (1953 Chiswick Press) - 25 copies. 27pp. Anon

1954-1955
Freedom of the Parish (1954 Phoenix House)
People, Places, Things and Ideas (1954 Grosvenor Press) - 4 vols
English Drawing from Samuel Cooper to Gwen John (1955 Thames & Hudson)
The Englishman's Flora (1955 Phoenix House) (1987 PH - facsimile Ed)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1955 Longmans)
The Shell Guide to Flowers of the Countryside (1955 Phoenix House) - Rowland & Edith Hilder

1956-1958
Art Treasures of the British Museum (1957 Thames & Hudson)
Old Stone Age (1957 Phoenix House)
Corot (1956 Book of the Month Club)
The Living Rocks (1957 Phoenix House)
The Painted Caves - Lascaux (1957 Phoenix House)
The Doodles of Doeve (1952 PP)
England (1957 T & H)
Head, Figures and Ideas (1958 Rainbird) - Henry Moore
Fossils, Insects and Reptiles (1957 Phoenix House Shell Nature Guides Series)
The Wiltshire Book (1957 T & H)
The Pen and the Rose (1957 Spicers)
English Villages in Colour (1958 Batsford)
Looking and Finding (1958 John Baker) - Christopher Chamberlain
Shell Guide to Trees and Shrubs (1958 Phoenix House)
The Three Kings (1958 Gordon Fraser)

1959-1960
(Ed) Country Poems (1959 Hulton)
(Ed) The Cherry Tree (1959 Phoenix House)
The Romantic Movement (1959 Arts Council)
Shell Guide to Wild Life (1959 Phoenix House)
A Herbal of All Sorts (1959 Phoenix House)
English Excursions (1960 Country Life)
Samuel Palmer's Valley of Vision (1960 Phoenix House)

1961-1965
Christopher Smart (1961 Longmans)
Poets in Their Pride (1962 Phoenix House)
The Shell Country Book (1962 Phoenix House)
City of Limerick (1962 Reading University Art School)
Collected Poems (1963 Phoenix House)
(Ed) O Rare Mankind (1963 Phoenix House)
(Ed) Concise Encyclopaedia of Modern World Literature (1963 Hutchinson)
Shapes and Stories (1964 John Baker)
(Ed) Walter Savage Landor : A Selection (1964 Centaur Classics)
The Shell Book of Roads (1964 Ebury Press)
The Shell Nature Book (1964 Phoenix House)

1966-1968
The Shell Country Alphabet (1966 Michael Joseph)
Shapes and Adventures (1967 John Marshbank)
A Skull in Salop (1967 Macmillan)
(Ed) William Allingham's Diary (1967 Centaur Press)
(Ed) The English Year (1967 OUP)
Shapes and People (1968 John Baker)

1969-1970
Ingestion of Ice Cream (1969 Macmillan)
(Ed) Thomas Hardy : A Choice of His Verse (1969 Macmillan)
(Ed) William Morris : A Choice of His Verse (1969 Macmillan)
Poems and Poets (1969 Macmillan)
Notes from an Odd Country (1970 Macmillan)
(Ed) Robert Southey : A Choice of His Verse (1970 Faber)
(Ed) Pennethorne Hughes : 38 Poems (1970 John Baker)

1971-1973
Discoveries of Bones and Stones (1971 Macmillan)
(Ed) Unrespectable Verse (1971 Allen Lane)
(Ed) Rainbows, Fleas and Flowers (1971 John Baker)
(Ed) Faber Book of Popular Verse (1971 Faber)
The First Folio (1973 Poem of the Month Club) - broadsheet
Sad Grave of an Imperial Mongoose (1973 Macmillan)
(Ed) Faber Book of Love Poems (1973 Faber)
Tempo (1973 Boosey & Hawkes)

1974-1975
Angles and Circles (1974 Gollancz)
A Dictionary of English Plant Names (1974 Allen Lane)
The Contrary View : Glimpses of Fudge and Gold (1974 Macmillan)
Britain Observed (1975 Phaidon)
(Ed) Charles Cotton (1975 Penguin pb)
(Ed) Penguin Book of Ballads (1975 Penguin pb)

1976-1980
The Goddess of Love (1976 Constable)
(Ed) Penguin Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs (1977 Penguin)
The Fiesta (1978 Secker & Warburg)
(Ed) Faber Book of Nonsense Verse (1979 Faber)
(Ed) Faber Book of Poems and Places (1980 Faber)
(Ed) Oxford Book of Satirical Verse (1980 OUP)
Twists of the Way (1980 Mandeville Press) - 250
History of Him (1980 Secker & Warburg)

After 1981
Collected Poems 1963-1980 (1982 Allison & Busby)
The Cornish Dancer (1982 Secker & Warburg £4.95)
Blessings, Kicks and Curses (1982 Allison & Busby)
The Private Art (1982 Allison & Busby)
Geoffrey Grigson's Countryside (1982 Ebury Press)
Montaigne's Tower (1984 Secker & Warburg)
Recollections (1984 Chatto & Windus)
Country Writings (1984 Century)
Persephone's Flowers (1986 Secker & Warburg)

MAGAZINES
New Verse (1933-39) - 34 issues (reprinted in the 1960's by Kraus)

READING
(Ed) R M Healey : Grigson at Eighty : Tributes from Friends & Admirers (1985 Rampant Lions Press)