Robert von Ranke Graves

Standard Name: Graves, Robert von Ranke
Used Form: Robert Graves

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Reception Anna Wickham
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 ,...
Friends, Associates Edith Sitwell
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),...
Publishing Laura Riding
Poems: A Joking Word, which had begun under the title Here Beyond, was published in London by Cape (as was Experts Are Puzzled, a book of essays and stories which LR had...
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...
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
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.
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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...
Residence Laura Riding
LR and Robert Graves sailed into New York from Le Havre, on what was supposed to be a visit, on the Champlain (the boat that had brought Riding to Europe, the Paris, on which...
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Laura Riding
With Robert Graves , LR published in LondonA Survey of Modernist Poetry, written at Vienna the previous winter. It was issued through the commercial publishers: Heinemann and, next year in New York, Doubleday .
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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 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...
Fictionalization Laura Riding
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
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.
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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.
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“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Timeline

From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...

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From early summer 1915

Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell , became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.

1928-9: Historian A. J. P. Taylor notes that many...

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1928-9

Historian A. J. P. Taylor notes that many influential books on the horrors of the First World War appeared during these years.

1929: As well as Richard Aldington's Death of a...

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1929

As well as Richard Aldington 's Death of a Hero, this year saw publication of Erich Maria Remarque 's All Quiet on the Western Front and Robert Graves 's Goodbye to All That.

18 November 1929: Robert Graves's First World War autobiography...

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18 November 1929

Robert Graves 's First World WarautobiographyGoodbye to All That was published in London.

May 1934: Robert Graves's historical novel I, Claudius,...

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May 1934

Robert Graves 's historicalnovelI, Claudius, narrated in the first person by a Roman emperor whose reputation with posterity was that of an idiot, was published to enthusiastic reviews.

Texts

Riding, Laura, and Robert von Ranke Graves. A Pamphlet Against Anthologies. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura, and Robert von Ranke Graves. A Survey of Modernist Poetry. Heinemann, 1927.
Riding, Laura, and Robert von Ranke Graves, editors. Epilogue: A Critical Summary. Seizin Press; Constable; Chatto and Windus.
Graves, Robert von Ranke. The White Goddess. Faber and Faber, 1948.