Robert von Ranke Graves

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...

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...

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

SJ published a novel entitled Farewell to Youth, about the First World War.

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 .

EJ has said that at this date she was beginning to achieve in her work a certain mastery of form and the quality she was aiming at, a clarity, a kind of lyrical innocence...

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...

This book brought AM great success, and she continued throughout her career to identify herself as its author. Henry Fothergill Chorley , reviewing it for the Athenæum two years after publication, said mutedly that it...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.