Geoffrey Grigson

Geoffrey Grigson

Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (2 March 1905 – 25 November 1985) was a British poet, writer, critic and naturalist. He was born at the vicarage in Pelynt, a village near Looe in Cornwall.

Read more about Geoffrey Grigson:  Life, Family, Works, New Verse: An Anthology (1942 Edition), Poetry of The Present (1949)

Famous quotes by geoffrey grigson:

    “Wha lies here?
    I, Johnny Doo.
    Hoo, Johnny, is that you?
    Ay, man, but a’m dead noo.”
    —Anonymous. ‘Johnny Doo,’ from Geoffrey Grigson’s Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, Faber & Faber (1977)