George Barker
George Barker was born in Loughton, England, United Kingdom on February 26th, 1913 and is the Poet. At the age of 78, George Barker biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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George Granville Barker (26 February 1913 – 27 October 1991) was an English poet who reacted to 1930s nostalgia with mythical and surrealistic themes.
Elizabeth Smart's long-time friendship with him was the subject of her cult-novel. I Sat Down and Wept.
Life and work
Barker was born in Loughton, Essex, England, and a former police constable and former batman in the Coldstream Guards, and later worked as a butler in Gray's Inn; after World War I, the couple moved to Chelsea; in 1976, Barker was born in Loughton, England. Kit Barker, his younger brother, was born in Battersea, London, and the family later lived at Upper Addison Gardens, Holland Park.
Barker received his education at an L.C. public high school. Regent Street Polytechnic School and Secondary School. He began writing as a child and worked in various odd jobs before settling on a writing career. Thirty Preliminary Poems (1933), Poems (1935), and Calamiterror (1937), which was influenced by the Spanish Civil War, and contains an attack on the Spanish Nationalists.
Barker had already been published by T.S. in his early twenties. Eliot at Faber and Faber, who was also assisting him in getting an appointment as Professor of English Literature in 1939 at Tohoku University (Sendai, Miyagi, Japan). He left there in 1940 due to the hostilities but during his tenure, he wrote Pacific Sonnets.
He then travelled to the United States, where he began his long-time friendship with writer Elizabeth Smart, by whom he had four of his fifteen children. Jessica Barker's first wife had three children by himself. In 1943, he returned to England. He lived in Itteringham, Norfolk, with his wife, writer and journalist Elspeth Barker, from the late 1960s to his death. He published the poem At Thurgarton Church in 1969, a few miles from Itteringham.
The Dead Seagull, Barker's 1950 book, chronicled his affair with Smart, whose 1945 book By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept was also about the affair. Robert Fraser's Collected Poems (ISBN 0-571-13972-8) was edited by Fraser and published in 1988 by Faber and Faber. Barker was involved in the New Apocalyptics movement, which responded to 1930s nostalgia by adopting surrealistic and mythical themes. However, his characteristically flexible idiosyncrasies distinguish him as a person of his own right.
C.H. considered Barker's masterpiece an uneven writer. George Barker's True Confession may be portrayed in Sisson as The True Confession of George Barker.
Barker was quoted as having "stirred the facts around too much." It simply can't be done." However, Robert Fraser wrote The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker in 2001.