Biografia Sotto l'influsso di Wystan Hugh Auden scrisse Sotto la scogliera (1943), ma successivamente adottò una tecnica più matura e raffinata, come emerge da Legenda Suecana (1953).
Negli ultimi anni si dedicò a saggi come Christopher Smart (1961), sul poeta britannico.
Era sposato con la scrittrice Jane Grigson.
Opere Several Observations (1939) Under the Cliff, and Other Poems (1943) Henry Moore (1944) Wild Flowers in Britain (1944) The Isles of Scilly and Other Poems (1946) The Mint: a Miscellany of Literature, Art and Criticism (1946) Samuel Palmer: the Visionary Years (1947) Wild Flowers in Britain (1947) John Craxton. Paintings and Drawings (1948) An English Farmhouse and Its Neighbourhood (1948) Places of the Mind (1949) The Crest on the Silver: an Autobiography (1950) The Victorians: an Anthology (1950) Flowers of the Meadow (1950) Thornton's Temple of Flora (1951) Essays From the Air: 29 Broadcast Talks (1951) A Master of Our Time: a Study of Wyndham Lewis (1951) Gardenage, or the Plants of Ninhursaga (1952) Legenda Suecana. Twenty-odd Poems (1953) Freedom of the Parish (1954) The Englishman's Flora (1955) The Shell Guide to Flowers of the Countryside (1955) Painted Caves (1957) The Shell Guide to Trees and Shrubs (1958) English Villages in Colour (1958) Looking and Finding (1958) The Shell Guide to Wild Life (1959) A Herbal of All Sorts (1959) The Cherry Tree (1959) English Excursions (1960) Samuel Palmer's Valley of Vision (1960) The Shell Country Book (1962) Poets in Their Pride (1962) Gerard Manley Hopkins (1962) Collected Poems 1924–1962 (1963) O Rare Mankind! (1963) The Shell Nature Book (1964) Shapes and Stories con Jane Grigson (1965) The Shell Country Alphabet (1966) William Allingham's Diary (1967) A Skull in Salop, and Other Poems (1967) An Ingestion of Ice Cream and Other Poems (1969) Shapes and People – A Book about Pictures (1969) Poems and Poets (1969) Notes from an Odd Country (1970) Discoveries of Bones and Stones (1971) Sad Grave of an Imperial Mongoose (1973) The First Folio (1973) The Contrary View: Glimpses of Fudge and Gold (1974) A Dictionary of English Plant Names (and some products of plants) (1974) Angles and Circles and Other Poems (1974) Britain Observed: the Landscape Through Artists' Eyes (1975) The Goddess of Love: The Birth, Triumph, Death and Return of Aphrodite (1978) History of Him (1980) Blessings, Kicks and Curses: a critical collection (1982) Collected Poems 1963–1980 (1982) The Private Art: a Poetry Notebook (1982) The Cornish Dancer and Other Poems (1982) Geoffrey Grigson's Countryside (1982) Recollections, Mainly of Writers and Artists (1984) The English Year from Diaries and Letters (1984) Country Writings (1984) Montaigne's Tower and Other Poems (1984) Persephone's Flowers and Other Poems (1986)
Premi e riconoscimenti Duff Cooper Prize: 1971 vincitore con Discoveries of Bones and Stones
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