Robert von Ranke Graves

MR based her book on the outline from Plutarch 's Life of Theseus. However, the novel also enters into scholarly debates about the origins of Mycenaean culture by portraying the replacement of a matriarchal...

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...

She claimed to have forgotten about this article when discussion reached her some years later about how its title had been linked with a line by Robert Graves to form the graffito Far away is...

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...

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 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...

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

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 .

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.

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

This is an argument which defends Milton's behaviour, and later Milton critics have offered different defences of him in the light of different ideas about what constitutes good behaviour in matters of gender. Meanwhile a...

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

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...

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...

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...