{"product_id":"2026200013655-secondhand-recollections-mainly-of-artists-and-writers","title":"Recollections: Mainly Of Artists And Writers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeoffrey Grigson — poet, critic, and one of the twentieth century's most formidably opinionated literary figures — presents in Recollections: Mainly of Artists and Writers an intimate and unsparing portrait of a cultural world now largely vanished. With the sharp eye of a man who was present at the creation of so much of modern British literature and art, Grigson chronicles his personal encounters with a dazzling cast of figures: painters, poets, and prose writers who shaped the aesthetic landscape of the mid-twentieth century. His prose crackles with anecdote and judgment, offering not mere nostalgia but a rigorous and often irreverent reassessment of the figures he knew.\n\nWhat elevates these recollections beyond mere memoir is Grigson's refusal to sentimentalise; his portraits are etched with the same astringent clarity that defined his editorial work on the seminal journal New Verse. As the founder of that influential publication, he occupied a unique vantage point from which to observe W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and a host of their contemporaries up close — and he is not shy about rendering his verdicts. For any reader with a serious interest in the literary and artistic culture of Britain between the wars and beyond, this volume is an essential and electrifying document.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203392282843,"sku":"2026200013655-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8277ef15-a687-41a8-87e0-08f03102468e.png?v=1788148393","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013655-secondhand-recollections-mainly-of-artists-and-writers","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}