A British Flora

Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985) was one of the most prolific and wide-ranging authors of the twentieth century. He wrote numerous books and articles on painting, literature, travel, places, archaeology, gardens, wild flowers and the English countryside, as well as compiling many anthologies and publishing an autobiography and thirteen volumes of his own verse. After working as a journalist in London in the 1930s, when he founded and edited the influential poetry magazine New Verse, he became well-known as a broadcaster, before settling down in a Wiltshire farmhouse in 1945 to earn his living as a freelance writer, critic and reviewer.