Geoffrey Grigson

Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985) was a prominent British poet, literary critic, editor, and naturalist who gained fame in the 1930s as the founder-editor of the influential Modernist magazine New Verse. He published over a dozen poetry collections and numerous anthologies, often exploring themes of history, the natural world, and mortality in his work. Grigson was educated at Oxford and remained an active writer until his death in Broad Town, Wiltshire, at the age of 80.