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The E-BNR aims to build a comprehensive & unique cross-artform guide to
the British neo-Romantic tradition,
from 1880 to the present day.
While the British Romantics of 1789-1824 have spawned a vast industry of
publishers, conferences & tourism, the later neo-Romantic traditions
remain largely neglected. The E-BNR is aimed at bringing this hidden
tradition to light.
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WHAT IS NEO-ROMANTICISM ?
Neo-Romantic artists have drawn their inspiration
from artists of the age of Romanticism or earlier.
Characteristic themes in their work include a
mystical approach to the British landscape...
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ENTRY: Barker, George
George Granville Barker (b. 13 February 1913 – d. 27 October 1991)
was an English poet and author who wrote in the wrote in the neo-romantic manner.
Barker was born in Loughton, near Epping Forest in Essex, and was raised by his
mother in Chelsea, London. He was schooled at an L.C.C. school and then at
Regent Street Polytechnic. He left school at the age of 14 and pursued several
odd jobs before settling on a career in writing.
In his early twenties, Barker had already been published by Faber and Faber, who also helped him to
gain appointment as Professor of English Literature in 1939 at Tohoku University, Japan
He left Japan in 1940 due to the Second World War, but wrote Pacific Sonnets
during his tenure. He first traveled to the United States where he began
his longtime liaison with writer Elizabeth Smart, returning to England in 1943.
Barker's novel The Dead Seagull, published in 1950, described his
affair with Smart, whose 1945 novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
was also about the affair.
Barker's Collected Poems were edited by Robert Fraser and published in 1987
by Faber and Faber.
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