Laurie Lee

EJH met Arthur Koestler at a party and was bowled over by his whirlwind energy, but when he proposed marriage she had enough sense to counter-suggest living together for some months instead to see how...

RL originally met Day-Lewis at Elizabeth Bowen 's home in London in 1936. Their next meeting followed on her reviewing his Poems in Wartime, 1940, for the New Statesman. She called him a...

She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis . Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her...

RL was also a great success with the art-historian Bernard Berenson . Among a younger generation of artists and writers whom she often welcomed as guests were Siegfried Sassoon , W. H. Auden , Christopher Isherwood

Dear Mr. Lee (commissioned for the Cheltenham Festival) is one of a number of poems addressing the role played by literature in the world. The mind and voice of a bright, rebellious schoolgirl clash with...

Passages in The Lover's Companion are grouped according to different kinds of love situation (first love, love at first sight, unrequited love, etc.). Authors used include Jane Austen , Anthony Trollope , Oscar Wilde ,...

UAF 's Observations of a Clerk (published in Poetry Review, 75, 1985) tells the story of her liberation into poetry through the irresponsibility of a really low-status job.Slow Learner, a prose...