The Early Poetry of Robert Graves: The Goddess BeckonsUniversity of Texas Press, 06.11.2013 - 192 Seiten Like many men of his generation, poet Robert Graves was indelibly marked by his experience of trench warfare in World War I. The horrific battles in which he fought and his guilt over surviving when so many perished left Graves shell-shocked and disoriented, desperately seeking a way to bridge the rupture between his conventional upbringing and the uncertainties of postwar British society. In this study of Graves's early poetry, Frank Kersnowski explores how his war neurosis opened a door into the unconscious for Graves and led him to reject the essential components of the Western idea of reality—reason and predictability. In particular, Kersnowski traces the emergence in Graves's early poems of a figure he later called "The White Goddess," a being at once terrifying and glorious, who sustains life and inspires poetry. Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven by the purpose of celebrating and explaining this deity and her matriarchy. |
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... Brazier, his first volume of poetry, and very recent works,such as Mammon and the Black GoddessandThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, both of which Robert Graves signed for me. But I had not yet read the accumulating letters and manuscripts ...
... Brazier , to Poems ( 1914- 1926 ) . During this discrete time , his course as poet and lover was set . Though he would respond to many changes in his life and to many new forces , he would hold to the poetic he established at this time ...
... Brazier , his first volume of poetry , and very recent works , such as Mammon and the Black Goddess and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam , both of which Robert Graves signed for me . But I had not yet read the accumulating letters and ...
... Brazier ( 1916 ) , Fairies and Fusiliers ( 1917 ) , Country Sen- timent ( 1920 ) , The Pier - Glass ( 1921 ) , and Whipperginny ( 1923 ) . Even odder , she did not seem to value the two volumes of Graves's poetry al- ready published by ...
... Brazier , was written in memory of Cap- tain A. L. Samson and reserves for him in heaven the fox and hounds but does not turn aside from the harshness , and bravery , of his death : We saw that , dying and in hopeless case , For others ...
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