Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber (23 August 1889,

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– 31 March 1961) was a British academic, publisher, and poet. He was a nephew of the noted Catholic convert and hymn writer, Father

Frederick William Faber Frederick William Faber (1814–1863) was a noted English hymnwriter and theologian, who converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1845. He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood subsequently in 1847. His best-known work is the hymn ...

, C.O., founder of the

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Life

Faber was educated at

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and

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. He gained a first in Classical Moderations in 1910 and a first in Literae Humaniores ('Greats') in 1912.''Oxford University Calendar 1914'', Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1914, pp. 198, 210 In 1913 he joined the

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. A fellow of

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, he was the founding editor of

Faber and Gwyer Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel B ...

(shortly afterwards

Faber and Faber Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel B ...

), one of the most celebrated of literary publishing houses. He was

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in the 1954 New Years Honours List.

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) * ''Oxford Apostles. A Character Study of the

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'' (1933) * ''A Publisher Speaking'' (1935) * ''The Buried Stream: Collected Poems 1908–1940'' (1941)
''Jowett''"> ''Jowett''
'': A Portrait with Background''(1957) * ''Twelve Years'' (1962), a poem * ''Modern First Editions: Points and Values''

Legacy

William Saroyan wrote a short story about Faber in his 1971 book, ''Letters from 74 rue Taitbout or Don't Go But If You Must Say Hello To Everybody''.

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New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors
* 1889 births 1961 deaths People from Malvern, Worcestershire Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford British World War I poets 20th-century British male writers Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford People educated at Rugby School Oxford University Press people Knights Bachelor British publishers (people) 20th-century British poets British male poets {{UK-academic-bio-stub

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