| Front | George Barker |
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| Back | 1913-91 poet his early works are somehow superficial, misunderstood surrealism, garbled rhetoric he is sometimes associated with the New Apocalypse movement and compared to Dylan Thomas , mistakes which have dogged Barker throughout his career. his first masterpiece, though, was the notorious True Confession of George Barker 1950 elegy was dominated in some of Barker's works like the Golden Chain 1968, at Thorgarton Church and in memory of David Archer 1973 perhaps his best work has come in the 1970 and 80s anno domini 1983 is one of the major poems of the post war period his novel was dead seagull 1950 George Granville Barker (26 February 1913 – 27 October 1991) was an English poet, identified with the New Apocalyptics movement, which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. His long liaison with Elizabeth Smart was the subject of her cult-novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. |
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