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George Granville Barker
At the age of 46, Barker had 15 children by 5 different wives. Three of his wives lived in
Loughton, Essex, while his last two wives were living in Interring ham, Norfolk. Barker left
school at the age of 14, concerned with the elements of life. He worked at a variety of jobs
before his first publications. In the 1940s, Barker finally became popular. (1)
The life of George Granville Barker was the life of any other lifestyle. Barker was born on
February 26, 1913 in Loughton Essex. He was raised by his Irish mother, who was a teacher, and
his English father, who worked in a factory. Barkers elder brother was named Kit Barker. Kit
was also working in the factory while there father passed. (1-2)
Barker grew up poor in an area of west London. After leaving school he had various jobs.
Those jobs were including that of a garage mechanic. Barker was encouraged by T. S. Eliot and
other literary figures, Mr. Barker had his first verse, "Thirty Preliminary Poems," published in
1933. He also travelled to the U.S. where he had begun his contact with a writer Elizabeth Smart.
Elizabeth had four of his fifteen children. Barker also had three children by his first wife, Jessica.
He returned to England in 1943. From the late 1960s until his death, he lived in Itteringham,
Norfolk, with his wife Elspeth Barker, the novelist.

Barker was educated at an L.C.C school, which was a foundation of forty boys and 30 girls. In
1935 barker traveled the world to publish his books. He then started to write poems for boys and
girls that were struggling through the depression of hard times. Barker then saw the light of
being a poet. From then on, he started to write poems about his everyday life. (2-1)
In the early twenties, barker had already been published by T.S. Elliot. In 1939, Barker
then became professor of English literature at a college he was working at. Barker collected
poems that were edited by Robert Fraser. Fraser was one of Barkers role models that leaded him
to writing poems. He then started idolizing Fraser. (2-2)
George Barker was a prize-winning poet who wrote in the neo-romantic manner. He died
on Sunday at his home in a village of Itteringham. He was 78 years old. He died of emphysema.
His wife, Elizabeth was living with him during the time of his death.
His next poem Calamiterror, appeared two years after his death. Barker did not attract
wide attention until Lament and Triumph came in the first year of World War II. In 1944 Eros in
Dogma, won him wider recognition. He is one of those poets you struggle to remember. (3-1)
One of his poems, The True Confessions of George Barker, was published in part 1950. It drew
much a lot of inspiration from Byron's, Don Juan. It also won notoriety from a BBC radio
broadcast in 1958. Peers in the House of Lords criticized it as pornography, and the poem was
not published until 1965.
In 1962 Barker was awarded the Guinness Prize for poetry and the Levinson Prize in 1965. He
rose to height right before the Second World War. As the leverage of the great modernist poets
was starting to dim and when the Auden generation was already past its first peak, he was
starting to rise to the top.
Citation
Fraser, Robert. "George Granville Barker". The Literacy Encyclopedia. First published 07 July
2001

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