Richard Church (poet)

Richard Thomas Church (26 March 1893 – 4 March 1972) was an English writer, known as poet and critic; he also wrote novels and verse plays, and three well-received volumes of autobiography.

Life

He was born in London, and went to school in Dulwich. He worked as a civil servant, leaving in 1933 to write full time; he became a journalist and reviewer. His first poetry appeared in Robert Blatchford's Clarion, and he contributed verse to periodicals for the rest of his life.

His first post as a literary editor was with the New Leader, organ of the Independent Labour Party. He was director of the Oxford Festival of Spoken Poetry during the 1930s. His much-anthologised World War I poem 'Mud' first appeared in Life and Letters, January 1935.

Works

Poems

• The Flood of Life (1917)
• Philip (1923)
• The Portrait of the Abbot (1926)
• The Dream (1927)
• Theme with Variations (1928)
• Mood without Measure (1928)
• Mary Shelley (1928)
• The Glance Backward (1930)
• Oliver’s Daughter (1930)
• News from the Mountain (1932)
• The Prodigal Father (1933)
• Apple of Concord (1935)
• The Porch (1937)
• Twelve Noon (1936)
• The Solitary Man (1941)
• Twentieth-Century Psalter (1943)
• The Lamp (1946)
• Collected Poems (1948)
• Selected Lyrical Poems (1951)
• The Inheritors (1957)
• North of Rome (1960)
• The Burning Bush (1967)

Novels

• The Stronghold (1939)
• High Summer (1931)
• The Cave (1951)
• The Crab-Apple Tree (1959)

Autobiography

• The Voyage Home (1964)
• Over the Bridge (1955)
• The Golden Sovereign (1957)

Sources

• Author and Book Info.com