Robert von Ranke Graves

Reviewing The Inner Harbour for the Observer, Peter Porter reported with satisfaction that Adcock was getting better and better. In Encounter, John Mole likened her combination of fastidious classicism and violent phantasmagoric effect...

Barker opens with the text of Finished with the War, A Soldier's Declaration, issued in July 1917 by the writer Siegfried Sassoon , one of her real-life characters. She alternates scenes of...

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...

Its recent editors call it very much a beginner's piece of work with regard to dialogue and stage impact. Yet they feel it is valuable for exemplifying the way that feminist ideas survived and continued...

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 .

She originally planned to write a novel based on her wartime experiences, but in November 1929, after having read the war memoirs of Edmund Blunden , Siegfried Sassoon , and Robert Graves , she began...

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).

Helen Byatt traces the quests of The Hearing Trumpet to texts the author encountered as a child, including the pre-Christian fairy tales and Celtic narratives shared by her nanny and maternal relatives along with Robert Graves

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...

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

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 .

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...

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

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...

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...