Sirporia Sims

“Sunset here rises over there shinning bright on the English world.” Students are engaging into the British literature and their significant poets; however, readers are stepping away from American Poetry into the world of British Poets. For example, George Granville Barker was a poet that grasps his reader’s attention with hid exotic poems of romance dealing with sex and death. Gathering facts from research will document this magnificent British Poet wonderful life, various works, achievements, and explicated poems.

British Poet George Granville Barker was born in Loughton, Essex, England on the 26th of February 1913. He was born to the parents of George and Marion Frances Barker (Vinson and Kirkpatrick 55). George attended two schools Marlborough Road School with his other siblings before moving away, as well as Street Polytechnic, a secondary school, until the age of fourteen when he dropped out working as a wallpaper designer to a garage mechanic. He at time slept on Putney Common with newspaper wrapped around his body for warmth.

His way of living was poor as he slept out in the open, because he no longer lived with his family. When Barker was young, his family left Loughton and moved to Chelsea in London, where he felt is isolated from his own culture, so he moved to the United States.

George had three wondrous marriages. George first marriage was Jessica Woodward they married in 1935 and divorced in 1940. Barker remarried not long after his first marriage. He remarried in 1942 to Elizabeth. George third and final marriage was a great success. He married Elspeth Langland on January 10, 1964. They had five children: Rafaella-Flora, Alexander, Roderick, Samuel and Lily (Lesniak and Trosky 46).

Barker had a poor; yet adv...

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...ol only to start off his career. George will inspire all his readers if they were to dwell into his poetry.

References

Barker, George. “To My Mother.” The Language of Literature. Applebee, Arthur N., et al.

A Houghton Mifflin Company. 1996 pg.1132.

Barker, George. “To Any Member of My Generation. 2014. PoemHunter.com.

Apr 07 2014. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-any-member-of-my-generation/

Bryfonski, Dedra., Phyllis Carmel Mendelson. Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol 8.

Detroit, 1978.

Lesniak, James G., Susan M. Trosky. Contemporary Authors New Revision Series.

Vol 38. Detroi: Gale Research Inc, 1993.

Stanford, Donald E. Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Poets. 1914-1945. Vol 20.

Detriot: Gale Research Company, 1983.

Vinson, James., and D. L Kirkpatrick. Great Writers of the English Language Poets.

New York: Macmillioan Press Ltd, 1979.