Elizabeth Smart was a Canadian poet and novelist. Her best-known work is the novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, an extended prose poem inspired by her romance with the poet George Bar
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Elizabeth Smart at her family's summer cottage near Kingsmere, c. 1930
George Barker (poet)
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George Granville Barker was an English poet. He identified with the New Apocalyptics movement, which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. His long liaison with Elizabet
Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author)
…Her best-known work is the novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945), an extended prose poem inspired by her romance with the poet George Barker. Smart was born to a prominent family in Ottawa, Ontario; her father, Russel Smart, was a lawyer, and the family had a summer house on Kingsmere Lake…
George Barker, by Patrick Swift, c. 1960
George Granville Barker blue plaque at Forest Road, Loughton