Faithful to his Muse, not to his women Vernon Scannell on a readable if over-long Life of George Barker, whose fecundity was not limited to his poetry The Sunday Telegraph London | February 3, 2002| | Copyright 2002 The Sunday Telegraph London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

The Chameleon Poet: A Life of George Barker

by Robert Fraser

Jonathan Cape, pounds 25, 573 pp

pounds 22 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222

GEORGE BARKER , who was born in 1913 and died in 1991, is a poet whose reputation, especially in academic circles, has been almost entirely eclipsed. In the 1930s he was regarded, along with Dylan Thomas, as something of a prodigy. His early work was admired by the towering figures of T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats, the great Irish poet including four of Barker's poems in his famously eccentric Oxford Book of Modern Verse and writing in a letter to a friend: "I ...

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