Robert von Ranke Graves

Standard Name: Graves, Robert von Ranke
Used Form: Robert Graves

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Travel Ruth Fainlight
They had already spent some time living and working in Tangier before settling there for the winter of 1962-3. In 1964 they revisited more old haunts, staying with Robert Graves at his house, Posada, at...
Travel Elizabeth Bishop
Laura Riding was then resident on Mallorca with Robert Graves . EB was in Europe again in 1937, then not again until a visit to England in 1964, followed by three more, in 1966, 1976...
Travel Laura Riding
LR , Robert Graves , and Nancy Nicholson found life in Egypt difficult, and stayed only for some months. They all came back to England with ragged nerves (initially to the cottage at Islip near...
Textual Production Laura Riding
Its working title was Modernist Poetry Explained to the Plain Man. The first print-runs were a thousand copies in England and five hundred in the USA. A second impression followed in England in...
Textual Production Laura Riding
If LR 's hand is not discernible in The White Goddess it has been discerned elsewhere in work that Graves published later as his own. Friedmann claims that in his book of critical essays The...
Textual Production Laura Riding
During the summer of emotional turmoil and re-aligned relationships that marked her return to the USA, LR was by August hard at work again on writing of her own and of Graves 's, on...
Textual Production Storm Jameson
SJ published a novel entitled Farewell to Youth, about the First World War.
This was the year of Edmund Blunden 's war memoir and of the first, pre-war volume of Siegfried Sassoon 's...
Textual Production Laura Riding
Robert Graves published his important study, The White Goddess, A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth; some critics have suggested that in this work LR was the victim of Graves's thieving mind.
Seymour, Miranda. “The Hand from the Grave”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, pp. 191-5.
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“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Textual Production Vera Brittain
Three of VB 's own poems appeared in the collection, which also included poems by Winifred Holtby , Robert Graves , Edmund Blunden , L. P. Hartley , Roy Campbell , and Louis Golding .
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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Textual Production Mona Caird
One of MC 's best-known novels appeared: The Daughters of Danaus (the first novel among the selection mentioned in the Times after her death, and reprinted by the Feminist Press in 1989).
In Greek mythology...
Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
The acknowledgements reveal the author's involvement with a rich mix of cultural activities. The opening poem, This is my house (two stanzas of seven short lines), was commissioned for a documentary film of the same...
Textual Features Carol Ann Duffy
Among the many poets gathered here, inescapable choices like Wilfred Owen , Siegfried Sassoon , Isaac Rosenberg , and Robert Graves rub shoulders with the unexpected, like Cynthia Asquith , Sarojini Naidu , and Gertrude Stein .
Textual Features Laura Riding
In a way this periodical or series was the final form of The Critical Vulgate, since it consisted of essays on many topics by various hands, though Riding had helped extensively with them all....
Residence Laura Riding
After a visit to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in the French Alps, LR and Robert Graves arrived on the island of Mallorca, where they settled in the village of Deyá in a...
Residence Laura Riding
Two weeks after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, LR and Robert Graves sailed from Palma, Mallorca, on a British destroyer which was evacuating foreigners because of the heavy bombardment.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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Timeline

From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...

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From early summer 1915

Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell , became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.

1928-9: Historian A. J. P. Taylor notes that many...

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1928-9

Historian A. J. P. Taylor notes that many influential books on the horrors of the First World War appeared during these years.

1929: As well as Richard Aldington's Death of a...

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1929

As well as Richard Aldington 's Death of a Hero, this year saw publication of Erich Maria Remarque 's All Quiet on the Western Front and Robert Graves 's Goodbye to All That.

18 November 1929: Robert Graves's First World War autobiography...

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18 November 1929

Robert Graves 's First World WarautobiographyGoodbye to All That was published in London.

May 1934: Robert Graves's historical novel I, Claudius,...

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May 1934

Robert Graves 's historicalnovelI, Claudius, narrated in the first person by a Roman emperor whose reputation with posterity was that of an idiot, was published to enthusiastic reviews.

Texts

Riding, Laura, and Robert von Ranke Graves. A Pamphlet Against Anthologies. Jonathan Cape, 1928.
Riding, Laura, and Robert von Ranke Graves. A Survey of Modernist Poetry. Heinemann, 1927.
Riding, Laura, and Robert von Ranke Graves, editors. Epilogue: A Critical Summary. Seizin Press; Constable; Chatto and Windus.
Graves, Robert von Ranke. The White Goddess. Faber and Faber, 1948.