[1] From 1932 to 1952, he taught English in a number of schools and teachers' training colleges, subsequently becoming a freelance author and editor.

[4] His first collection of poems, The Natural Need, was published in 1936 by the Seizin Press, run by Robert Graves and Laura Riding, whose work Reeves's early poetry sometimes resembles.

His best work characteristically combines intensity of mood with an understated manner to distinctive and sometimes haunting lyrical effect.

[citation needed] The rural descriptiveness of his less distinguished poetry is elsewhere the vehicle for an ironic pastoralism voicing his disaffection with urban modernity.

In this latter book, reprinted several times, he chose to add conventional punctuation to the poems, doing away with her characteristic dashes.he was a great poet.