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The 1940s were prolific years for Graham, and he published four more books during that decade.

These were The Seven Journeys ( 1944 )' 2ND Poems ( 1945 ), The Voyages of Alfred Wallis ( 1948 ) and The White Threshold ( 1949 ).

The style of these early poems led critics to see Graham as part of the neo-romantic group that included Dylan Thomas and George Barker.

The affinities between these three poets derive from a common interest in poets like Gerard Manley Hopkins, Arthur Rimbaud and Hart Crane, and, in the cases of Thomas and Graham, a taste for the Bohemian lifestyle of the London literary scene.