Geoffrey Grigson

EJS has been much anthologised: in Geoffrey Grigson 's Poetry of the Present: An Anthology of the Thirties and After, 1949, and more recently in collections edited by Fleur Adcock , Philip Larkin ,...

The volume was praised by Humbert Wolfe and Janet Adam Smith , but called by the Times Literary Supplementoften extremely difficult and occasionally annoying in its word play, shifting meanings, and free association. Geoffrey Grigson

AR 's edition of James Thomson rapidly went out of print, perhaps helped by the long, enthusiastic review which Geoffrey Grigson (even though he disliked Thomson) provided in the New Statesman.

Stephen Spender and Geoffrey Grigson both praised this volume. Grigson called EJS somewhat inscrutably the purest woman poet of our time—meaning, apparently, that her technique was unobtrusive or transparent. The year after its...

Geoffrey Grigson admired this volume, too.

It defended her against Geoffrey Grigson 's charge that she over-used certain words, saying that this repetition heighten[ed] the intimacy of her appeal. This volume, it said, marked the height of her popularity.

Sitwell was subject to dismissive antifeminist comment from such critics as Geoffrey Grigson and Harold Acton . The poets of the Movement were famously dismissive of ES . Al Alvarez published a notorious and...