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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... Complete Poems and The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston appear with permission from the Barbara Levy Literary Agency . Parts of this book have appeared as " Sullen Moods ' : From Extant Drafts to Completed Poem " ( Gravesiana 1 : 4 ...
... complete stranger . Perhaps he replied to many in the same way . I knew that a few years before a friend of mine had also written for an audience and had gone to see Graves at his home in Deya on the island of Mallorca only to be turned ...
... Complete , incomprehensible " and prophesies to the Unicorn that there will be " No mate for you " ( 9-10 ) . Body and Spirit , Unicorn and Doe exist as parts of the eternal search for spiritual meaning : one to seek and the other to be ...
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