Geoffrey Faber

Geoffrey Faber

Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber (1889-1961) was a British academic, publisher and poet. He was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford. He joined Oxford University Press in 1913.

A Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, he was the founding editor of Faber and Gwyer, shortly afterwards Faber and Faber, one of the most celebrated of literary publishing houses.

Works

* "Interflow, Poems Mainly Lyrical (1915)"
* "In the Valley of Vision: Poems Written in Time of War (1918)"
* "Elnovia, An Entertainment for Novel Readers (1925)"
* "The Autobiography of a Book (1926)"
* "A Publisher Speaking (1935)"
* "The Romance of a Bookshop 1904-1938 (1938)"
* "The Buried Stream Collected Poems 1908-1940 (1941)"
* "Oxford Apostles. A Character Study of the Oxford Movement (1954)"
* "Jowett: A Portrait with Background (1957)"
* "Twelve Years (1962) poem"
* "Modern First Editions: Points and Values"

ee also

* Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize


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