Robert von Ranke Graves

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ,...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 .

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....

During the summer of emotional turmoil and re-aligned relationships that marked her return to the USA, LR was by August hard at work again on writing of her own and of Graves 's, on...

The acknowledgements reveal the author's involvement with a rich mix of cultural activities. The opening poem, This is my house (two stanzas of seven short lines), was commissioned for a documentary film of the same...

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.