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Unsolicited Testimonials


    Richard Perceval GravesHere is a selection of the unsolicited testimonials received by me since the summer of 2001::

    One:
    Thank you for coming! The boys and [staff] were unanimous on the subject of their enjoyment of your lecture. It was pitched exactly right.

    Two:
     Thank you ever so much for a splendid lecture... I have received a large number of enthusiastic reports from members of the audience who clearly felt inspired and entertained by your analysis of ..............

    Three:
     Your lecture was most stimulating and it was very well received - to listen to poetry being read and evaluated is.....[a] genuinine mind sharpener.

    Four:
     Many thanks indeed for your splendid lecture on ......... which was very well received by both students and staff.

    Five:

     I write to thank you once again for your talk... It was as insightful as it was imaginative and presented an 'internal view' of ..... not often encountered in the rather drier classroom studies. The Sixth Form was... attentive throughout... Subsequently, many have expressed their enjoyment of the talk to me..

    Six:

     Your analysis of the literature was fascinating and profoundly insightful. Moreover you managed to hold the concentration of your audience so powerfully. No mean feat...

    Seven:

    Your presentation....was just brilliant. [We]...were riveted. It was a most professional and fascinating presentation..

          I hope this has been encouraging, and look forward to hearing from you. You can get in touch directly (see phone number at base of page) or by using the booking form.

                   With all best wishes from

                           Richard Perceval Graves     

 
Richard Graves is an acclaimed lecturer and writer with more than 17 published books. He has lectured at leading literary festivals including those at Cheltenham, Hay-on-Wye, Hull and Toronto. He has also lectured to the Housman, Powys and Graves Societies and to numerous VI forms including Shrewsbury School and Lancing College.

His lectures are lively and stimulating and have often been called 'charismatic'.
 

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During the 2001/2002 Academic Year, RPG lectured on:

Robert Graves and the White Goddess at Portsmouth Grammar School;

Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen at Monmouth School, Radley College, Sedbergh School and Cheltenham College;

A.E.Housman: An Introduction at Kelly College;

Artistic Truth and Robert Graves's 'Good-bye to All That' at Bishop's Stortford College;

Changing Perceptions: The Poets and World War I at Pocklington School, Taunton School, The King's School Chester, Shrewsbury School and Queen's College Taunton.

RPG

     
 
Holding an audience with the spoken word

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