Peter Levi

In Oxford AS met a number of other poets: John Wain , Anne Ridler , Elizabeth Jennings , Anne Born , Andrew Motion , Craig Raine , Peter Levi , and Anne Pennington , who died a few years later.

Her friends included many other writers: Marina Warner , Alasdair Clayre , Peter Levi , John Wain and his wife Eirian , and Simon King .

She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis . Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her...

She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council (after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972.Some critics disparage EJ 's work along lines effectively summarized by Robert Crawford

Peter Levi in The Spectator commented on the capacity of SB 's writing to make the most ordinary journeys and shopping expeditions read like a crisp, unforgettable honeymoon.

These translations have been much admired. Ellendea Proffer wrote in the New York Times Book Review that they are certainly . . . the best translations available (a compliment that ignores the dearth of competition)....

EJ was a twentieth-century English poet writing on family, literary, and religious subjects. Peter Levi calls her maybe the last poet of what may be called the soul. Early in her career she...

This collection contained contributions from poets, artists, and musicians to the celebration of the nine hundredth anniversary of Winchester Cathedral. Humphrey Clucas , Clive Sansom , Leslie Norris , Elizabeth Jennings , Peter Levi ,...

SP 's only translation from a contemporary poet was Amorgos from the modern Greek of Nikos Gatsos . Since her command of modern Greek was not equal to her knowledge of the ancient language, she...