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Publishing | Laura Riding | 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... |
Publishing | Laura Riding | |
Reception | Laura Riding | LR
always maintained she was uninterested in her reputation and would take no steps to assist it—though she did care that the record should be accurate, and to that end she wrote a lengthy article... |
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 |
Reception | Anna Wickham | 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
,... |
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... |
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... |
Residence | Laura Riding | 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... |
Residence | Laura Riding | Two weeks after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, LR
and Robert Graves
sailed from Palma, Mallorca, on a British destroyer which was evacuating foreigners because of the heavy bombardment. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 284 |
Residence | Laura Riding | LR
and Robert Graves
sailed into New York from Le Havre, on what was supposed to be a visit, on the Champlain (the boat that had brought Riding to Europe, the Paris, on which... |
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
. |
Textual Features | Laura Riding | 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.... |
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... |
Textual Production | Laura Riding | Robert Graves
published his important study, The White Goddess, A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth; some critics have suggested that in this work LR
was the victim of Graves's thieving mind. Seymour, Miranda. “The Hand from the Grave”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, pp. 191-5. 192 “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 51080 (25 May 1948): 7 |
Textual Production | Vera Brittain | 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
. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 156 |
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