Richard Church (poet)

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Richard Thomas Church (March 26, 1893March 4, 1972) was an English writer, known as poet and critic; he also wrote novels and verse plays, and three well-received volumes of autobiography.

He was born in London, and went to school in Dulwich. He worked as a civil servant, leaving in 1933 to write full time; he became a journalist and reviewer.

He was director of the Oxford Festival of Spoken Poetry, during the 1930s. His much-anthologised poem 'Mud' first appeared in Life and Letters, January 1935.

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  • The Flood of Life (1917) poems
  • Philip (1923) poems
  • The Portrait of the Abbot (1926) poems
  • The Dream (1927) poems
  • Theme with Variations (1928) poems
  • Mood without Measure (1928) poems
  • Mary Shelley (1928)
  • The Glance Backward (1930) poems
  • Oliver’s Daughter (1930)
  • High Summer (1931) novel
  • News from the Mountain (1932) poems
  • The Prodigal Father (1933)
  • Apple of Concord (1935)
  • The Porch (1937)
  • The Stronghold (1939) novel
  • Twelve Noon (1936) poems
  • The Solitary Man (1941) poems
  • Twentieth-Century Psalter (1943)
  • The Lamp (1946) poems
  • Collected Poems (1948)
  • Selected Lyrical Poems (1951)
  • Over the Bridge (1955), autobiography
  • The Golden Sovereign (1957) autobiography
  • The Inheritors (1957) poems
  • North of Rome (1960) poems
  • The Voyage Home (1964) autobiography
  • The Burning Bush (1967) poems

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