Graves had already published two volumes of poetry with the Woolfs, but only visited them for the first time in 1925, prior to the publication of The Marmosite's Miscellany. In her diary, Virginia Woolf described him as "a nice ingenuous rattle-headed young man" and judged "No, I don't think he'll write great poetry". Graves was thirty at the time, mentally scarred by war, the father of four children, and much published.