Richard Church (poet)

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.

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

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