Robert von Ranke Graves

Thanks to Untermeyer and to British poet and anthologist John Gawsworth , by the 1930s AW 's poetry was widely anthologised, making her often as well represented as respected male poets such as Lawrence ,...

Beginning her editorship of Wheels, ES made other friendships, including those with Nancy Cunard , Nina Hamnett (whom she describes as generous and courageous), Walter Sickert (whose generosity and sense of fun she celebrates),...

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...

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...

Critic Jerome McGann asserts that LR , while making no claim to transcendent poetic power, makes poetry out of her own power to rise above her subject. In this he associates her with Felicia Hemans

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.

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.

As an American living in England in 1928 she was said by an American friend, Polly Antell , to have become very English, while Nancy Cunard thought her very tense, dominating, and quietly American...

Her first marriage, on 2 November 1920, while she was still an undergraduate at Cornell, was to historian Louis Gottschalk (then a graduate student). By August 1924 they felt that their marriage had converted...

In probably February 1924 LR began a brief but passionate affair with writer Allen Tate , whom she called Alastor after Shelley 's poem of that title. After her first marriage ended in divorce, LR

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...

LR was now the sexual and intellectual partner of Schuyler Jackson . Her recent biographer Elizabeth Friedmann writes that she had discovered Graves to have fallen short in dedication to the work of uncovering...

Robert Graves helped persuade Leonard and Virginia Woolf to publish it.

Allen Tate praised the volume in the New Republic, prophesying a brilliant future for Riding. When John Gould Fletcher in The Criterion called her poems derivative, Graves wrote to criticise both Fletcher for being...

At 35 St Peter's Square, Hammersmith, LR and Robert Graves set up their own press, calling it the Seizin Press , from an old word that means taking possession.