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Journal Article 
Newspaper 
Beryl Graves Is Dead at 88; Muse to Poet Robert Graves 
Saxon, W 
2003 
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New York Times
ISSN: 0362-4331
EISSN: 1553-8095 
New York Times Company 
B.9 
Mr. [Ward] described Graves as an ''inveterate reviser of poems'' who would have a dozen drafts as well as variants published here and there in magazines, periodic collections and anthologies. Mrs. Graves, he said, had a unique grasp of the entire range of Graves's work and the incisiveness to choose from among variations. She met Graves in 1937 through Alan Hodge, a university friend and member of a circle with Graves and Laura Riding, a poet and co-founder with Graves of various literary ventures. By all accounts, there was an immediate attraction between Beryl Pritchard and the much older Graves, who was living with Riding though still married to his first wife, Nancy Nicholson, the mother of his first four children. Beryl Pritchard married Hodge, but Riding left Graves for a marriage of her own. Beryl eventually took Graves's name as their children were born. Then Nicholson gave Graves a long-desired divorce in 1949, clearing the way for Beryl to marry him in 1950. 
Deaths; (Oct 31; 2003)