Editing Forrest Reid (section)

==Works and influences==
As well as his fiction, Reid also translated poems from the ''[[Greek Anthology]]'' (''Greek Authors'' (Faber, 1943)). His study of the work of [[W. B. Yeats]] (''W. B. Yeats: A Critical Study'' (1915)) has been acclaimed as one of the best critical studies of that poet. He also wrote the definitive work on the English [[Woodcut|woodcut artists]] of the 1860s (''Illustrators of the Sixties'' (1928)); his collection of original illustrations from that time is housed in the [[Ashmolean Museum]], [[Oxford]].

He was a close friend of [[Walter de la Mare]], whom he first met in 1913, and about whose fiction he published a perceptive book in 1929. Reid was also an influence on novelist [[Stephen Gilbert (novelist)|Stephen Gilbert]], and had good connections to the [[Bloomsbury Group]] of writers. Reid was a founding member of the [[Imperial Art League]] (later the [[Artists League of Great Britain]]). Reid was also a close friend of [[Arthur Greeves]], the artist known to be [[C. S. Lewis]]'s best friend. Greeves painted several portraits of Reid, now all in the possession of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution.<ref>{{cite web | title=Forrest Reid | work=Dictionary of Ulster Biography | year=1993 | url=http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/1452 | accessdate=5 July 2009 | archive-date=24 November 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121124004221/http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/1452 | url-status=live }}</ref>