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

Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That casts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War poetry is incomplete. The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of 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, Gravess status as a war poet seems to have depended mainly on his prose memoir (and bestseller), Good-bye to All That. None of the previous biographies written on Graves, however excellent, attempt to deal with this paradox in any depth. Robert Graves the war poet and the suppressed poems themselves have been largely neglected until now. Jean Moorcroft Wilson, celebrated biographer of poets Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas, relates Gravess fascinating life during this period, his experiences in the war, his being left for dead at the Battle of the Somme, his leap from a third-storey window after his lover Laura Ridings even more dramatic jump from the fourth storey, his move to Spain and his final goodbye to all that. In this deeply-researched new book, containing startling material never before brought to light, Dr Moorcroft Wilson traces not only Gravess compelling life, but also the development of his poetry during the First World War, his thinking about the conflict and his shifting attitude towards it. See more
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  • Weight: 894g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Aug 2018
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781472929143

About Dr Jean Moorcroft WilsonJean Moorcroft Wilson

Jean Moorcroft Wilson is a celebrated biographer and leading expert on the First World War poets. Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper biography prize for her Isaac Rosenberg she has also written biographies of Siegfried Sassoon Charles Hamilton Sorley and Edward Thomas. She has lectured for many years at the University of London as well as in the United States and South Africa. She is married to the nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf on whom she has also written a widely-praised biography of place.

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