Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-Bye to All That (1895-1929)

by Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Book Overview

The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all the poems he had published during and just after the First World War. Until his son, William Graves, reprinted almost all the Poems About War in 1988, Graves's status as a "war poet" seems to have depended mainly on his prose memoir Goodbye to All That. None of the previous biographies written on Graves attempt to deal with this paradox in any depth. The suppressed poems themselves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472929144
• ISBN13: 9781472929143
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.4"