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Travel | Ruth Fainlight | They had already spent some time living and working in Tangier before settling there for the winter of 1962-3. In 1964 they revisited more old haunts, staying with Robert Graves
at his house, Posada, at... |
Travel | Elizabeth Bishop | Laura Riding
was then resident on Mallorca with Robert Graves
. EB
was in Europe again in 1937, then not again until a visit to England in 1964, followed by three more, in 1966, 1976... |
Travel | Laura Riding | LR
, Robert Graves
, and Nancy Nicholson
found life in Egypt difficult, and stayed only for some months. They all came back to England with ragged nerves (initially to the cottage at Islip near... |
Textual Production | Laura Riding | Its working title was Modernist Poetry Explained to the Plain Man. The first print-runs were a thousand copies in England and five hundred in the USA. A second impression followed in England in... |
Textual Production | Laura Riding | If LR
's hand is not discernible in The White Goddess it has been discerned elsewhere in work that Graves
published later as his own. Friedmann claims that in his book of critical essays The... |
Textual Production | Laura Riding | During the summer of emotional turmoil and re-aligned relationships that marked her return to the USA, LR
was by August hard at work again on writing of her own and of Graves
's, on... |
Textual Production | Storm Jameson | SJ
published a novel entitled Farewell to Youth, about the First World War. This was the year of Edmund Blunden
's war memoir and of the first, pre-war volume of Siegfried Sassoon
's... |
Textual Production | Laura Riding | Robert Graves
published his important study, The White Goddess, A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth; some critics have suggested that in this work LR
was the victim of Graves's thieving mind. Seymour, Miranda. “The Hand from the Grave”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, pp. 191-5. 192 “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 51080 (25 May 1948): 7 |
Textual Production | Vera Brittain | Three of VB
's own poems appeared in the collection, which also included poems by Winifred Holtby
, Robert Graves
, Edmund Blunden
, L. P. Hartley
, Roy Campbell
, and Louis Golding
. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 156 |
Textual Production | Mona Caird | One of MC
's best-known novels appeared: The Daughters of Danaus (the first novel among the selection mentioned in the Times after her death, and reprinted by the Feminist Press
in 1989). In Greek mythology... |
Textual Production | Jeni Couzyn | The acknowledgements reveal the author's involvement with a rich mix of cultural activities. The opening poem, This is my house (two stanzas of seven short lines), was commissioned for a documentary film of the same... |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Among the many poets gathered here, inescapable choices like Wilfred Owen
, Siegfried Sassoon
, Isaac Rosenberg
, and Robert Graves
rub shoulders with the unexpected, like Cynthia Asquith
, Sarojini Naidu
, and Gertrude Stein
. |
Textual Features | Laura Riding | In a way this periodical or series was the final form of The Critical Vulgate, since it consisted of essays on many topics by various hands, though Riding had helped extensively with them all.... |
Residence | Laura Riding | After a visit to Gertrude Stein
and Alice B. Toklas
in the French Alps, LR
and Robert Graves
arrived on the island of Mallorca, where they settled in the village of Deyá in a... |
Residence | Laura Riding | Two weeks after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, LR
and Robert Graves
sailed from Palma, Mallorca, on a British destroyer which was evacuating foreigners because of the heavy bombardment. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 284 |