![]() ![]() The text is a first person fictionalized description of Smart’s feelings leading up to and through the affair, with very little description of Barker, let alone what he is feeling. Smart gave birth to 4 of Barker’s children and eventually moved to rural England the affair had cooled by then, but the two remained friendly. ![]() She arranged to meet him, their attraction was mutual and it led to a long trans-Atlantic love affair through and following WWII. Her novel is almost all raw emotion, so Wikipedia helped me to fill in some of the details: Smart read a volume of Barker’s poetry in a bookstore in London in the late 1930s and fell in love with him through his work. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is her ‘prose poetry’ novel of her long term love affair with the married English poet George Barker. Elizabeth Smart was a Canadian author born just before WWI. ![]()
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