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),...

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...

Its working title was Modernist Poetry Explained to the Plain Man. The first print-runs were a thousand copies in England and five hundred in the USA. A second impression followed in England in...

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.

LR published poems, essays, and a review in 1927-8 in transition, the little magazine produced in Paris by Eugene and Maria Jolas and Elliot Paul . Her critical essay here on Gertrude Stein was...

After talking all night at 35 St Peter's Square, Hammersmith, with her intimates Robert Graves , Nancy Nicholson , and Geoffrey Phibbs , LR jumped from her bedroom window four storeys up.

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...

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...

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....