Geoffrey Grigson, the Poet and the Enemy, ‘Saturday Review'

Auden’s most staunch supporter throughout the 1930s, Geoffrey Grigson (b. 1905) founded and edited ‘New Verse’, 1933–9, which both published and promoted Auden’s poetry. Poet, prolific anthologist, literary and art critic, writer on natural history and travel, and of non-fiction for children, he has worked for the ‘Yorkshire Post’, as Literary Editor of the ‘Morning Post’, and for the BBC. His publications include ‘The Arts Today’ (1935), ‘New Verse: An Anthology’ (1939), and ‘The Crest on the Silver: An Autobiography’ (1950).