Geoffrey Faber

Sir Geoffrey Cust Faber (23 August 1889, Great Malvern – 31 March 1961) was a British academic, publisher, and poet. He was a nephew of the noted convert and hymn writer, Father Frederick William Faber, C.O., founder of the Brompton Oratory.
Faber was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford. He gained a First in Classical Moderations in 1910 and a First in Literae Humaniores ('Greats') in 1912. In 1913 he joined the Oxford University Press.
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.

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