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“... Jewish, which he makes little of, despite the provocative comments of Gertrude Stein (printed by O’Prey): ‘it was terribly important for you to have liked her; for your Jesus book, after all, she was Jew every single bit of her, but ... she was the materialistic jew camouflaging her materialism by intellectualism’. Seymour-Smith does not treat Riding ...”

“... in 1982.) Alan Bold’s index to the MacDiarmid volume has no entry for Graves, any more than Paul O’Prey’s has for MacDiarmid. The two poets, though contemporaries, might have been inhabiting different planets. And yet the impression one gets from the two books is not dissimilar: both men were indefatigably productive; both were male ...”

“... Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles; which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric,’ Graves writes at the start of The White Goddess (1948), his synoptic account of the history of Western myth ...”