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Friends, Associates | Ruth Fainlight | RF
and Alan Sillitoe
made the acquaintance of the poet Robert Graves
in Mallorca. For some years they were regular guests at Graves's parties, and they continued to visit him in Mallorca until at... |
Reception | Ruth Fainlight | RF
has drawn appreciative comment from fellow poets and writers like Helen Dunmore
, A. S. Byatt
, and Elaine Feinstein
(who has written that in a time when every poet is wooed by the... |
Occupation | Frances Horovitz | Patrick Magee
, Harvey Hall
, Stevie Smith
, Hugh Dickson
, and Basil Jones
were the other readers for the project. The poets from whose work they read included W. B. Yeats
, D. H. Lawrence |
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... |
Education | Elizabeth Jennings | At university as at school, she was a voracious reader of poetry, feeling the influence in particular of John Donne
, Gerard Manley Hopkins
, and Robert Graves
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Reception | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
has said that at this date she was beginning to achieve in her work a certain mastery of form Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books. 100 |
Publishing | Sylvia Kantaris | It was re-issued by Menhir Press
in 1986, to go with Time & Motion. The title poem was reprinted in The Guardian on 22 November 1999 together with fellow-poet Kate Clanchy
's article on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Manning | This book brought AM
great success, and she continued throughout her career to identify herself as its author. Henry Fothergill Chorley
, reviewing it for the Athenæum two years after publication, said mutedly that it... |
Reception | Olivia Manning | Amid a chorus of praise for this novel, Pamela Hansford Johnson
's statement that it was among the ten best novels written by women in the past twenty-five years attracted ridicule for its mathematical approach... |
politics | John Milton | This is an argument which defends Milton's behaviour, and later Milton critics have offered different defences of him in the light of different ideas about what constitutes good behaviour in matters of gender. Meanwhile a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Padel | She claimed to have forgotten about this article when discussion reached her some years later about how its title had been linked with a line by Robert Graves
to form the graffito Far away is... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Renault | |
Publishing | Laura Riding | LR
published her second collected volume of poetry: Love as Love, Death as Death, the first production of the Seizin Press
operated in Hammersmith by herself and Robert Graves
, in a limited edition... |
Reception | Laura Riding | LR
always maintained she was uninterested in her reputation and would take no steps to assist it—though she did care that the record should be accurate, and to that end she wrote a lengthy article... |
Publishing | Laura Riding | LR
and Robert Graves
had agreed with Arthur Barker
that he would advance them £500 a year to publish a series of their works—of which Riding's The Word 'Woman', appeared only posthumously. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 192-3 |
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