Richard Church (poet)

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

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.

He was director of the Oxford Festival of Spoken Poetry , during the 1930s.

Works

• The Flood of Life (1917) poems
• Philip (1923) poems
• The Portrait of the Abbot (1926) poems
• The Dream (1927) poems
• Theme with Variations (1928) poems
• Mood without Measure (1928) poems
• Mary Shelley (1928)
• The Glance Backward (1930) poems
• Oliver’s Daughter (1930)
• High Summer (1931) novel
• News from the Mountain (1932) poems
• The Prodigal Father (1933)
• Apple of Concord (1935)
• The Porch (1937)
• The Stronghold (1939) novel
• Twelve Noon (1936) poems
• The Solitary Man (1941) poems
• Twentieth-Century Psalter (1943)
• The Lamp (1946) poems
• Collected Poems (1948)
• Selected Lyrical Poems (1951)
• Over the Bridge (1955), autobiography
• The Golden Sovereign (1957) autobiography
• The Inheritors (1957) poems
• North of Rome (1960) poems
• The Voyage Home (1964) autobiography
• The Burning Bush (1967) poems