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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... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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 |
Instructor | Ruth Fainlight | RF
later said that half a dozen encounters with Robert Graves
when he was in the process of composing a poem and showed her what he was doing, was the closest she ever came to... |
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... |
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... |
Education | Anne Enright | AE
bought her first book at thirteen, with the book-token prize for a schools radio quiz. She looked—very carefully—at every volume on the shelves of a Dublin bookshop before choosingThe Greek Myths by Robert Graves |
Intertextuality and Influence | William Empson | His preface to the first edition acknowledges the influence of I. A. Richards
—with whom, however, he also says he disagrees in principle. Richards had been his undergraduate supervisor, and tradition (only slightly exaggerated, says... |
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
. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Daryush | Through her mother's cousin Roger Fry
, ED
as a girl met many distinguished people as the friends and guests of her parents: W. B. Yeats
, Ezra Pound
, Henry Newbolt
, Mary Coleridge |
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... |
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