Robert von Ranke Graves

Critic Jerome McGann asserts that LR , while making no claim to transcendent poetic power, makes poetry out of her own power to rise above her subject. In this he associates her with Felicia Hemans

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 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...

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

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 .

As an American living in England in 1928 she was said by an American friend, Polly Antell , to have become very English, while Nancy Cunard thought her very tense, dominating, and quietly American...

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...