In late October 1939, Robert Graves wrote to Alan Hodge: “I have begun a new book, about English.” Graves and Hodge had recently completed a social history

“The best book on writing ever published” (Patricia T. O’Conner, author of Woe Is I). When Robert Graves and Alan Hodge decided to collaborate on this man

First published in 1940, this survey of the inter-war period looks at plays and novels being seen and read in London at the time, and discusses the germinal and

The first six chapters are distinguished according to the nature of the question a reader might ask about the poem, which the title purports to answer. Who give

After the Civil War, many disillusioned souls headed west in search of a new start. It was a grueling journey. Yet thousands, with their pioneering spirit, pers