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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 65 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from Michael Blechner to Laura Jackson, 1976-09-14

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: 1976.004.1.19.010
Scope and Contents

"Your comments about EPilogue are of great value to bibliographers. I am puzzled, however, about No Decency Left."

Dates: 1976-09-14

Letter from Robert H. Canary to [Ellsworth Mason?], 1974-12-16

 Item — Box 10, Folder: 9
Identifier: 1976.004.10.9.016
Scope and Contents

"Dear Friend: Here are the papers duplicated so far for the MLA seminar on Laura Riding and Robert Graves. As you can see, only the papers on Riding are in this packet."

Dates: 1974-12-16

Letter from Roderick Cave to Laura Jackson, 1968-10-17

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1976.004.1.1.003
Scope and Contents

"My book is to be a general history of private presses, covering the whole field from the 15th century onwards, and so my account of Seizin will necessarily be brief. I have typed out the passages which relate to the Press, and these are on the attached sheets."

Dates: 1968-10-17

Letter from Roderick Cave to Laura Jackson, 1968-11-24

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1976.004.1.1.008
Scope and Contents

"...I shall still be very grateful for the help you have given me in putting my brief account of the Seizin Press into better shape. You are quite right in suggesting that I should have contacted you initially, instead of relying on the Moran-Graves version."

Dates: 1968-11-24

"Lift Boy", 1934

 Item
Identifier: 1981.010.3
Scope and Contents

"Lift Boy." Winthrop Rogers Edition, Festival Series of Choral Music. Song for mixed voices with piano accompaniment.

Dates: Copyright: 1934

Masopust, Michael, 1975-06-14

 File
Identifier: 1988.012.1.182
Scope and Contents

Masopust refers to the Graves and Riding project he discussed with Ellmann; queries Ellmann about the whereabouts of a series of letters between Yeats and Riding concerning the possiblity of including [Graves's] poems in Yeats's Oxford Book of Modern Poetry.

Dates: 1975-06-14

"On Geoffrey Gryson - on Robert Graves", 1963

 Item — Box 10, Folder: 6
Identifier: 1976.004.10.6.005
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence and manuscripts of the American poet. Handwritten and carbon copy typescripts.

Dates: 1963

"On Literary Hokum As Exemplified in the Work of W.B. Yeats and Robert Graves", circa early 1970s

 Item — Box 10, Folder: 6
Identifier: 1976.004.10.6.001
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence and manuscripts of the American poet. Handwritten and carbon copy typescripts.

Dates: circa early 1970s

Photocopy Letter from Laura (Riding) Jackson to The Editor of The Times Literary Supplement, 1976-01-20

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 18
Identifier: 1976.004.1.18.004
Scope and Contents

"I have been moved by Miss Ruth Padel's review, in your issue of December 26, 1975, of Robert Graves' Collected Poems 1975, to offer as ballast for the balloon-like still-higher lift that Miss Padel endeavors to give what is called 'Graves criticism' with her particular formula of super-heated veneration, two related articles of principle."

Dates: 1976-01-20

Photocopy of "The Tone of Robert Graves, 1927-1938" by Chris Faulkner, 1974

 Item — Box 10, Folder: 9
Identifier: 1976.004.10.9.008
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence and manuscripts of the American poet. Handwritten and carbon copy typescripts.

Dates: 1974