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Essays by George Barker, B.a
This collection of essays by British poet George Barker showcases his talent for vivid and imaginative writing, exploring topics ranging from love and desire to politics and culture. Barker's lyrical prose offers readers a rich and rewarding literary experience. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Chameleon Poet
The poet George Barker was convinced that his biography could never be written. 'I've stirred the facts around too much,' he told Robert Fraser. 'It simply can't be done.' Eliot wrote of his 'genius'. Yeats thought him the most interesting poet of his generation. Dylan Thomas envied his power over women. War trapped him in Japan. In America he conducted one of the most celebrated love affairs of the century. He fathered fifteen children in several countries, three during one battle-torn summer. By the 1950s he was the toast of Soho. Barker was Catholic and bohemian, frank and elusive, tender and boisterous. In Eliot's phrase, he was 'a most peculiar fellow.' Robert Fraser's biography offers ...
The True Confession of George Barker
George Barker has long been a favorite of American readers and, like his friend Dylan Thomas, he is best known for his impassioned lyrics. The present poem, which he began over ten years ago and which he privately calls his "mistresspiece," is the testament of a contemporary man shameless in his avowal of sexuality and his lack of faith, a man for whom the Western heritage will no longer suffice.
The Dead Seagull
An uncompromising tale of obsession and the darker side of love First published in 1945, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart is considered a classic of autobiographical fiction. Set in America, it tells of the narrator’s obsessive affair with a married man and is based on Smart’s real life relationship with the English poet, George Barker, with whom she had four children. It has remained in print for over seventy years. Five years later, Barker published his own account of their affair in the novel The Dead Seagull. In his version, the narrator lives with his pregnant wife, Theresa, in a cottage by the sea somewhere in England. When Theresa invites an old scho...
Street Ballads
This collection of poetry by George Barker includes an assessment of Barker's contemporaries including descriptions of Auden and Yeats.
