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Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1895-07-24 - 1985-12-07

Biography

British poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist.

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from Laura Jackson to Roderick Cave, 1968-11-09

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1976.004.1.1.006
Scope and Contents

"I broke association with Mr. Graves because of certain dissatisfactions. My breaking the association was not of one piece with an act of repudiating '22 books'."

Dates: 1968-11-09
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Laura (Riding) Jackson papers, 1965-1974 / Series 1 - Correspondence

Letter from Laura Jackson to Roderick Cave, 1968-12-09

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1976.004.1.1.010
Scope and Contents

"And so you are a librarian. A rather young librarian (at a university library) is visiting me with his wife in the Christmas week. He has been quite long working on a bibliography of my writings, but held back from consulting me until about a year ago."

Dates: 1968-12-09
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Laura (Riding) Jackson papers, 1965-1974 / Series 1 - Correspondence

Letter from Laura Jackson to Roderick Cave, 1970-08-04

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1976.004.1.1.024
Scope and Contents "Since we have come this far in speaking of Mr. Ford, I find it not out of order to speak more on my and your encounter with him." "Since you are going to have the little book of poems, I take special pains to tell you that the case is not of Faber's 'brinng back' some of my poetic work into print again but of my allowing these poems to be reproduced." "He has plundered my thought, my very writings, pillaged in my poems, all this to an extent not comprehended (a...
Dates: 1970-08-04
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Laura (Riding) Jackson papers, 1965-1974 / Series 1 - Correspondence

Letter from Laura Jackson to Roderick Cave, 1970-09-06

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1976.004.1.1.025
Scope and Contents

"You --mened there, with what seemed to me a --ree of friendship, the need of public commentary by myself on the Seizin Press story, to counterbalance the Robert Graves' story of this."

Dates: 1970-09-06
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Laura (Riding) Jackson papers, 1965-1974 / Series 1 - Correspondence

Letter from Laura Jackson to Roderick Cave, 1970-10-05

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1976.004.1.1.026
Scope and Contents

"I assume from what you have written that you would have written, in a while, facing the difficulty of writing against the background of the incomprehension you experienced in reading my preface to the poems-selection."

"You speak of my way of writing, as you encounter it in that preface, as if it were the result of immurement with my husband in esoteric preoccupation, far from the literary world."

Dates: 1970-10-05
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Laura (Riding) Jackson papers, 1965-1974 / Series 1 - Correspondence

Letter from [Laura Jackson] to The Editor of The New York Review of Books, 1976-02-16

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: 1976.004.1.13.003
Scope and Contents "Mr. Virgil Thomson, in his review of Published in Pairs by Hugh Ford, in your issue of February 19th, improves, in his patronizing reference to me in it as among those who took on 'siz'-'not only as warriprs but artists', from their Paris associations on the wilful perversion of literary, historical, and personal actualities that Mr. Ford commits in my regard in his book."....."...he wanted this projected book to include an authoratative account of The Seizin Press....
Dates: 1976-02-16
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Laura (Riding) Jackson papers, 1965-1974 / Series 1 - Correspondence

Letter from [Laura Jackson] to The Editor of The Washington and Lee University Review, Spring 1967

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: 1976.004.1.15.001
Scope and Contents "I write to you regarding references to myself made in Professor Daniel Hoffman's article 'The Early Poetry of Robert Graves' presented in your spring 1966 issue - this being an excerpt from a book not yet, then, published."...."Nor did Professor Hoffman consult me. And there have been others who felt themselves well enough provided with authority for what they said of me to have no need of mine. But Professor Hoffman's manner of treating me, partaking of the...
Dates: Spring 1967
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Laura (Riding) Jackson papers, 1965-1974 / Series 1 - Correspondence

Letter from Laura (Riding) Jackson to Michael Blechner, 1976-07-31

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: 1976.004.1.19.007
Scope and Contents

"I thank you much, and Mr. Farmer equally, for the kind response to my request for certain xeroxes of ms. material, and the complimentary presentation of these."

Dates: 1976-07-31
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Laura (Riding) Jackson papers, 1965-1974 / Series 1 - Correspondence

Letter from Laura (riding) Jackson to The Editor of The New York Review of Books, 1975-08-04

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: 1976.004.1.13.002
Scope and Contents "A friend who knows something of my language-studies but is only slightly acquainted with my other work, early and later, has sent me a copy of Mr. Paul Auster's review of my books Selected Poems: In Five Sets and The Telling published in your issue of August 7th, commenting on it as "a rather nice review". It is not a nice review, as my friend would know if he had better acquaintance with my work in the whole, and experienced sense of the procedures followed by poets, poet-critics,...
Dates: 1975-08-04
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Laura (Riding) Jackson papers, 1965-1974 / Series 1 - Correspondence

Letter from L.J. [Laura Jackson] to Ellsworth Mason, 1971-07-13

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: 1976.004.1.7.005
Scope and Contents "As to Walter Thigpen: You had said that you were 'thrown' by the fact that 'he would want to to continue as an active, intertwining collaborator in a bibliography. rather than turning over the information he accumulated.' If you will re-examine my letters on this subject you will find that no such 'fact' or data for a deduction of such fact was presented to you:"...."As to your list of what you have of mine. I have already commented on 'Barbra Rich, etc. I'd like to...
Dates: 1971-07-13
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives / Laura (Riding) Jackson papers, 1965-1974 / Series 1 - Correspondence

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