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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... Georgian " or " Edwardian . " These are simply poets of significance , of whom Graves was one , a belief that Eliot would reiterate and never renounce . They all shared poetical and historical problems but came to solutions marked by ...
... Georgian , ' a poet who fought in the Great War . " A neighbor whom Palmer had asked directions in turn asked Palmer about Graves because they couldn't figure him out and didn't know what he did with his " serious " time . Palmer had ...
... mountain - track , The broad , full - bosomed ocean , green and black , And Peace , and all that's good . ( Over the Brazier 30 ) This Keatsian , and Georgian , poem was written before 12 THE EARLY POETRY OF ROBERT GRAVES.
The Goddess Beckons Frank L. Kersnowski. This Keatsian , and Georgian , poem was written before Graves was told that the object of his devotion , Peter Johnstone , had been arrested for so- liciting a soldier . In his preface to The ...
... Georgian poetry , a movement which appears from the vantage of eighty years hindsight to have been hopelessly archaic and anachronistic . But at the time Graves was at Charterhouse , the Georgians were very modern , concerned with ...
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