Geoffrey Faber (1889-1961). Courtesy World War I and English Poetry.
Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber (23 August 1889, Great Malvern – 31 March 1961) was an English poet, academic, and publisher.
Life[]
Born in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, Faber was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford.[1] He joined Oxford University Press in 1913.
A Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, he was the founding editor of Faber & Gwyer, which shortly afterwards became Faber & Faber, one of the most celebrated of literary publishing houses.
Recognition[]
The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is awarded in his name.
Publications[]
- Interflow, Poems Mainly Lyrical (1915)
- In the Valley of Vision: Poems Written in Time of War (1918)
- Elnovia, An Entertainment for Novel Readers (1925)
- The Autobiography of a Book (1926)
- Oxford Apostles. A Character Study of the Oxford Movement (1933)
- A Publisher Speaking (1935)
- The Romance of a Bookshop 1904-1938 (1938)
- The Buried Stream: Collected Poems 1908-1940 (1941)
- Jowett: A Portrait with Background (1957)
- Twelve Years (1962), a poem
- Modern First Editions: Points and Values
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Pine, L.G., ed., The Author's and Writer's Who's Who, 4th ed., 1960, p.125
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