As editor of the dogmatic poetry journal \New Verse\ in the 1930s, he championed the likes of Auden and Macneice, but at the same time made unshakeable enemies through a fiercely passionate critical ideal that he was later to describe, a little ruefully, as a 'billhook' which he would take to the pompous, the inflated, the egotistical, anything he viewed as being worthlessly retrograde, empty word-play or socio-political posturing. The seventh and last son of an elderly clergyman from Pelynt in Cornwall, Grigson escaped a career with Colman's mustard to turn his hand variously to school teaching, journalism, broadcasting, radio monitoring (during the second world war), and radio production.įew British writers of the twentieth century have inspired such resentment as Geoffrey Grigson.
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