May 18 Tuesday

It was a heavy wretched day: went with Laura to her dentist & took brooch to be put right again (pin split) coffee in Olympia after.
Poems. Laura finished a poem The Victory.[RG]
Started Ch. [Chapter] 5 of Ghost.
We cannot have the Ewhurst house until 18th1.
Insomnia problem of Laura's.
Read her Coleridge's Miscellaneous Criticism2 because her eyes were bad.
Walk at evening to Carabbia beyond Pazallo on the hill – beyond the villa limit.
Started a poem about the ghosts, the pupil of the heart3.

Editorial Notes

1June KG
2 Coleridge's Miscellaneous Criticism by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Thomas Middleton Raysor. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1936. eds.

Hands Referenced

    • Annotation: ink correction
    • Character: regular
    • Ink: black

Places Mentioned

  • London

    England

  • Olympia

    Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
    café in centre of Lugano KG

  • Ewhurst

    Ewhurst, Surrey, England
    Highcroft, the house RG and LR rented with Harry and Alix Kemp between July and November 1937, was located there. eds.

  • Pazallo

    Pazallo, Ticino, Switzerland

  • Carabbia

    Carabbia, Switzerland

People Mentioned

  • Laura

    Riding, Laura
    (1901-91) American poet. Laura Riding (née Reichenthal; then Laura Gottschalk).

  • Coleridge

    Coleridge, Samuel
    British poet, critic, and philosopher (1772-1834) eds.

Organizations Mentioned

  • Constable & Co., Ltd.

    Constable
    Constable Publishers. Arranged with them to print and distribute Seizin Press Epilogue and books. WG

Bibliography

    • Title: The Swiss Ghost [formerly The Kind Ghost] [novel]
    • Author: Graves, Robert/ Riding, Laura
    • Date: 1937-04-22
    • Title: Collected Poems [1938]
    • Author: Graves, Robert
    • PubPlace: London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney
    • Publisher: Cassell and Co. Ltd
    • Idno: A48
    • Date: 1938
    • Title: Victory [poem] [Presumably "Defeat of the Rebels". (Check drafts in Buffalo for this title.) DW]
    • Title: Collected Poems (1938)
    • Author: Graves, Robert
    • PubPlace: London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney
    • Publisher: Cassell and Co. Ltd.
    • Date: 1938-11
    • Title: Or To Perish Before Day [poem]
    • Title: Collected Poems [1938]
    • Author: Graves, Robert
    • PubPlace: London, Toronto, Melbourne & Sydney
    • Publisher: Cassell and Co. Ltd.
    • Idno: A48
    • Date: 1937-05-18