Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
> Jeez, I shoulda checked Fred, & of course when I did, it wasn't Sisson, it
> was Grigson:
>
> <<< I want to do a thorough study of the great Geoffrey Grigson, founder
> of New Verse, superb poet, and author of many, many books on art, botany
> and antiquities: it's scary how much he knew. And he had the sense to marry
> one of the great cooks of the later 20th century, Jane Grigson. Their
> daughter Sophie is a popular tv cook in England.>>>
>
> Another worth looking at, I'm sure, but not the man you mentioned.
>
> aargh.
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> 'The Critic"
>
> I cannot possibly think of you
> other than you are: the assassin
>
> of my orchards. You lurk there
> in the shadows, meting out
>
> conversation like Eve's first
> confusion between penises and
>
> snakes. Oh be droll, be jolly
> and be temperate! Do not
>
> frighten me more than you
> have to! I must live forever.
>
> Frank O'Hara
Dear Doug,
There's probably a connection. Grigson as I recall was a friend of
Wyndham Lewis's - even, I think but am not sure, an editor of some of
L's later work. Sisson wrote a sensitive essay on Lewis and was a
similarly cantankerous, contrarian figure, though with
religious/conservative rather than secular/fascist biases. Grigson's a
name that keeps coming up and I'm glad your friend is working on him.
You must learn about British literary scholarship far more quickly than
I; if you hear of anything being done on S I'd appreciate hearing about
it. Best, Fred
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