Richard Church (poet)
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Richard Thomas Church (March 26, 1893 – March 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. His first poetry appeared in Blatchford's Clarion, and he contributed verse to periodicals for the rest of his life.
His first post as a literary editor was with the New Leader, organ of the Independent Labour Party. 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.
[edit] Works
- 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
