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James Reeves (writer)

British writer (–)

John Morris Reeves, known as James Reeves (1 July – 1 May ) was a British writer principally known for his poetry, plays and contributions to children's literature and the literature of collected traditional songs. His published books include poetry, stories and anthologies for both adults and children.

He was also well known as a literary critic and a broadcaster.[2]

Biography

John Morris Reeves was born in Wealdstone in the London Borough of Harrow, elder son of Albert John Reeves, a company secretary, and Ethel Mary, née Blench.[3] He attended Nevill House school at Eastbourne, then Stowe School, where he won a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge.[1] From to , he taught English in a number of schools and teachers' training colleges, subsequently becoming a freelance author and editor.[4]

His first collection of poems, The Natural Need, was published in by the Seizin Press, run by Robert Graves and Laura Riding, whose work Reeves's early poetry sometimes resembles.

Numerous further volumes by Reeves include The Imprisoned Sea (), The Talking Skull (), and Poems and Paraphrases ().

James reeves poet biography assignments He taught until , when he became a full-time writer. He was the son of Albert Reeves, an accountant, and Ethel Blenche, who was the daughter of a school mistress from Yarm in North East England - they met while on holiday in Switzerland. German Poet. In contrast to poets like W.

Collected Poems of is the fullest edition of his verses. His best work characteristically combines intensity of mood with an understated manner to distinctive and sometimes haunting lyrical effect.[citation needed] The rural descriptiveness of his less distinguished poetry is elsewhere the vehicle for an ironic pastoralism voicing his disaffection with urban modernity.

His books of poetry for children were collected as The Wandering Moon and Other Poems ().

As an editor, Reeves was prolific, producing many anthologies of prose and poetry, as well as selections from the work of John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Clare, and others, including Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson ().

James reeves Life He was the son of Albert Reeves, an accountant, and Ethel Blenche who was the daughter of a school mistress from Yarm in North East England - they met while on holiday in Switzerland. Yeats would later influence his poetic style. He was also an editor of some of the works of Robert Graves. Angela Angela Brown is the website editor of NevermorePoem.

In this latter book, reprinted several times, he chose to add conventional punctuation to the poems, doing away with her characteristic was a great poet.

One of his most outstanding poem is sky, sea , shore.

"Stars in a frosty sky Crackle and blaze; Streams in the lowland meadows linger & laze; Shells on the sea shore gleam,washed by the tide; Seagulls over the Barbour Circle & glide.

Blue smoke and prancing steed,swallow & swan- How many more Curving, glistening S- things in sky , sea Shore."

Bibliography

  • "The Merry-Go-Round": A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for Children (Heinemann, )
  • Pigeons and Princesses (Heinemann, )
  • Prefabulous Animiles, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone (Heinemann, )
  • A Golden Land (Constable, ), editor
  • The Idiom of the People (Heinemann, ), folk song lyrics collected by Cecil Sharp.
  • Exploits of Don Quixote (Blackie, )
  • The Everlasting Circle: English traditional verse (Heinemann, ), folk song lyrics collected by Sabine Baring-Gould, George Gardiner and Henry Hammond
  • Georgian Verse (), editor
  • The Questioning Tiger (), poems
  • Selected Poems (Allison & Busby, )
  • The Cold Flame (), children's novel based on a Grimm fairy tale
  • Understanding Poetry ()
  • The Christmas Book, with Raymond Briggs ()
  • Sayings of Dr.

    Johnson (John Baker, )

  • Commitment to Poetry ()
  • Inside Poetry, with Martin Seymour-Smith ()
  • Maildun the Voyager ()
  • Poems and Paraphrases ()
  • Complete Poems for Children, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone (Faber, )
  • A Vein of Mockery: Twentieth-century Verse ()
  • The Forbidden Forest (William Heinemann, )
  • Collected Poems – ()
  • More Prefabulous Animiles (), poems, with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone
  • The Reputation and Writings of Alexander Pope ()
  • The Closed Door (The Gruffyground Press, ), poems
  • Arcadian Ballads (Whittington Press, ), poems
  • The Sea
  • Explores
  • Underground
  • The Wife And The Ghost
  • Sky, Sea, Shore

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