Great Regulars: At the same time, a great deal

of new information has come to light about Sassoon, the young Robert Graves and Edward Marsh, the editor of Georgian Poetry, and his friends Robbie Ross and Charles Scott Moncrieff, which shows they were vitally shaped and stimulated by knowledge of the gay milieu. Ricketts synthesises all this pretty effectively, and is alert to cryptic or glancing references--such as Owen's allusion to "the wildest beauty in the world", in "Strange Meeting". It means we can see an important network of associations linking personalities, as well as poems, with greater clarity--and therefore appreciate the true character of the poems with a properly respectful tenderness.

from Andrew Motion: The Guardian: Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War by Harry Ricketts--review

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