Barker, George, 1913-1991
Dates
- Existence: 1913 - 1991
Biographical Note
George Barker grew up in relative poverty and left school at age 14 to pursue writing. In 1932, he submitted a typescript to editor John Middleton Murray, who hired him as a reviewer. Working for Murray introduced Barker to an influential circle of writers and promoted his career as a poet. Barker published his first book, Poems (1935), with the support of T.S. Eliot. Barker continued to publish with varying success; his best work is considered to be Anno Domini (1983). Barker's personal life was tumultuous, but settled somewhat in 1967 when he and his wife Elizabeth (Elspeth) Langlands moved to Norfolk. Barker died from emphysema in 1991.
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George Barker collection
The collection documents the career of twentieth-century English author George Barker through correspondence, typescripts of poems, a signed typescript of the essay "Conspectus for the Converts," and two signed broadsides of the poem "What is Mercy and a Voice."
Collection is open for research.
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