See also Hubert Butler, The Bell, An Anglo-Irish View in Escape from The Anthill, foreword by Maurice James Craig (Dublin: Lilliput 1985). Stephen Dodd, review article for Irish Independent (16 July 1995), Living/Leisure.Gerry Smyth, Decolonisation and Criticism: The Construction of Irish Literature (London: Pluto Press 1998), p.173f.Poems from Ireland (Dublin The Irish Times 1944). Includes are Maurice Craig Maurice Farley Robert Greacen John Hewitt Valentin Iremonger Sean Jennett Patrick Kavanagh Freda Laughton Cecil Day Lews Donagh MacDonagh Roy McFadden Nick Nicholls Roibeard Ó Farachain D J OSullivan W R Rodgers 3, Ireland Poem The party] Geoffrey Taylor Bruce Williamson But it has been the policy of The Bell to look rather for poems by young or - at the time when we first printed them little-known poets..

I mean Robert Graves, Louis MacNeice, and Austin Clarke. To make an Irish anthology fully representative one should, I think, include work by three other Irish poets whose poems would lend lustre to these pages.

They form a small, nearly representative, sample of the valid contemporary English poetry by Irish writers. Geoffrey Taylor (Dublin: Irish Peoples Publications 1944), 48pp.

Irish Poems Today, chosen from the first seven volumes of The Bell, ed. ed., Irish Poets of the Nineteenth Century (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1951, 1958), viii, 406pp. Phibbs and Mary married in 1935 and in 1940 they returned to Ireland. Nancy Nicholson introduced Phibb to Mary Dillwyn and was upset when he began a relationship with her although their relationship was at an end.

After some bitter wrangling, Graves and Riding moved to Spain while Phibbs set up house with Nancy in Wiltshire - shortly after which Phibbs and Norah McGuinness were divorced. Robert Graves visited Phibbs in Sligo in 1928 and in 1929 Phibbs went to London where his arrival unbalanced the of Graves mènage involving his wife Nancy Nicholson and Laura Riding. with Betjeman, ed., Faber Book of Love Poetry (1957, 1964, 1988) lived in a Georgian house in Tallaght died of kidney failure arising from prescription of mercury for a heart condition mixing with medications supplied by a homeopath. Irish Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1951), an anthology which includes short biographical notes also ed., Irish Poems of Today (1944), from vols. poetry editor for Time & Tide, c.1955 Įd., with John Betjeman, English and Scottish Landscape (London: Muller 1944), a poetry anthol., ill. with her involved in mènage a trois with Robert Graves and Laura Riding culminating in a double defenestration which made a splash in the press formed relationship with Graves's wife Nancy Nicholson - and later with Mary Dillwyth, whom he married in 1935 returned to Ireland in 1940 Ĭhanged his name to Taylor following his fathers refusal to allow his wife over the threshold, in one account, because he hosted de Valera on the run, in another, and because of the Riding-Graves affair in a third became Poetry Editor of The Bell in succession to Frank O∬onnor encouraged Northern writers such as Roy McFadden issued poems, Withering of the Figleaf (1927) - withdrawn for fear of identification with anti-Catholic sentiment issued as Fitzurse, It Was Not Jones (Hogarth 1928) A Dash of Garlic (1933) also gardening works, e.g. Hailibury joined Irish Guards worked various as demonstrator in College of Science, librarian, factory-worker in London, and school-teacher in Cairo worked with Nancy Nicholson at the Poulk (Hogarth) Press m.

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