Richard Church (poet)

Richard Thomas Church ( born March 26, 1893 in London, † March 4, 1972 in Cranbrook, Kent ) was a British journalist and realist writer, who published poems and novels in particular. As his most important work is considered his three volume autobiography, described by the Brockhaus Encyclopedia as "a masterpiece of its genre ." In German translation There are no books of Church.

Life and work

The son of a London postal clerk and a teacher originally wanted to study fine arts, but his father insisted on a solid career so that Church spent 24 years in public service management. He first worked in a laboratory of the customs authority, then in the Ministry of Labour. These experiences were reflected later with a certain Dickens paint, such as Philip Hobsbaum says in the novel trilogy from 1937 /40, also three-volume autobiography in Churchs down.

1915 married Caroline Jessica Parfett Church and was the father of a daughter. In 1917 he made ​​his debut with the poetry collection The Flood of Life. Individual poems have appeared in prestigious leaves. Church wrote regular reviews for The Spectator and found access to the Bloomsbury Group to Virginia Woolf. With his second wife Anna Catherina shimmer, a silversmith ( Marriage 1928), Church had three children. When in 1930 his first novel, Oliver 's Daughter appeared Church looked back on eight books of poetry and a book on Mary Shelley. In addition to the ability to portray people from different layers, this novel also shows Churchs great love for music, burns but said daughter ( a grocer ) with a distinguished musician by. 1933 receipted account of his service in the Ministry of Labour to ( now living in Kent) to feed his family in the future from writing. 1957 him the royal order of knighthood is awarded. After the death of his second wife (1965 ) he married Dorothy Mary Beale.

Church died (1972 ) in his ( own ) Priest's House, Sissinghurst / Cranbrook. His novels diseased with consistently compelling atmosphere often painted on far too melodramatic and contrived fables and characters, judges BookRags. He was an essentially been " English " author. He will remain primarily as a poet and critic in memory. Hobsbaum other hand, thinks that if Churchs reputation as a poet in the postwar years was yet shrunk, then, probably because he never precursors such as Robert Graves and WH Davies have to really be able to solve. Hobsbaum Churchs quoted verses:

Say When You this return, " I came by the wrong road, And saw the starved woods burn. I stopped, bewildered, lost, And of a sudden heard The red -throated bird, The holy bird, the ghost ... "

Works

  • The Flood of Life, poems, 1917
  • Hurricane, poems, 1919
  • Philip, poems, 1923
  • The Portrait of the Abbot, poems, 1926
  • The Dream, poems, 1927
  • Mood without Measure, poems, 1927
  • Theme with Variations, poems, 1928
  • Mary Shelley, Biography, 1928
  • The Backward Glance, poems, 1930
  • Oliver 's Daughter, novel, 1930
  • High Summer, novel, 1931
  • News from the Mountain, poems, 1932
  • The Prodigal Father, novel, 1933
  • Apple of Concord, novel, 1935
  • Twelve Noon, poems, 1936
  • The Porch, Novel, Volume 1 of a trilogy, 1937
  • The Stronghold ( bulwark ), Novel, Volume 2 of the trilogy, 1939
  • The Room Within, novel, Volume 3 of the trilogy, 1940
  • The Solitary Man, poems, 1941
  • Eight for Immortality, Essays on Authors, 1941
  • The Sampler, novel, 1942
  • Twentieth - Century Psalter, poems, 1943
  • The Lamp, poems, 1946
  • Collected Poems, Collected Poems, 1948
  • Kent, topography, 1948
  • The Cave, novel, 1951
  • Selected Lyrical Poems, Selected Poems, 1951
  • The Growth of the English Novel, essays, 1951
  • The Nightingale, novel, 1952
  • The Prodigal: a play in verse, poems, 1953
  • Dangerous Years ( Dangerous years), novel, 1956
  • The Inheritors, Poems 1948 - 1955, 1957
  • Small Moments, essays, 1958
  • The Crab - Apple Tree, novel, 1959
  • North of Rome, poems, 1960
  • Calm October, essays, 1961
  • Prince Albert, Novel, 1963
  • A stroll before dark, essays, 1965
  • The Burning Bush, Poems 1958 - 1966, 1967
  • Little Miss Moffatt: a confession, novel, 1969
  • Over the Bridge, 1955
  • The Golden Sovereign, 1957
  • The Voyage Home 1964

Church also published several books for children

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