James Reeves

The real name of James Reeves was John Morris (1909 - 1978), a British writer known for his poetry and contributions to children's literature and the literature of collected traditional songs.

Life

He was born in [[Harrow, and educated at Stowe School and Jesus College, Cambridge.^[1] He taught until 1952, when he became a full-time writer.

He was close to Laura Riding for a time, being successor to Jacob Bronowski as editor of Epilogue: A Critical Summary.^[2] He also was an editor of works of Robert Graves.

Works

• Songs for Sixpence (1929) editor
• The Natural Need (1936, Seizin Press) poems
• The Imprisoned Sea (1949) poems
• The Wandering Moon (1950) poems
• The Snitterjipe
• The Password (1952) poems
• The Critical Sense: practical criticism of prose and poetry (1956)
• The Talking Skull (1958) poems
• The Idiom of the People: English traditional verse (1958) folk songs, with Cecil Sharp
• Collected Poems 1929-1959 (1960)
• The Everlasting Circle: English traditional verse (1960)
• Georgian Verse (1962) editor
• The Questioning Tiger (1964) poems
• Selected Poems (1967)
• The Christmas Book (1968) with Raymond Briggs
• The Cold Flame (1967) children's novel based on a Grimm fairy tale
• Understanding Poetry (1967)
• Commitment to Poetry (1969)
• Maildun the Voyager (1971) historical novel
• Poems and Paraphrases (1972)
• Complete Poems for Children (1973)
• A Vein of Mockery: twentieth-century verse (1973)
• The Forbidden Forest and other stories (1973) with Raymond Briggs
• Collected Poems 1929-1974 (1974)
• The Reputation and Writings of Alexander Pope (1976)
• The Closed Door (1977) poems
• Arcadian Ballads (1978 poems
• The Sea

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