James Reeves

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

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

He was close to Laura Riding for a time, and also was an editor of works of Robert Graves.

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Songs for Sixpence (1929) editor
The Natural Need (1936, Seizin Press) poems
The Imprisoned Sea (1949) poems
The Wandering Moon (1950) poems
The Password (1952) poems
The critical sense; practical criticism of prose and poetry (1956)
The Talking Skull (1958) poems - these are amazing
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
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