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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... Sassoon and Graves among the Allies . Their opponents told similar tales of being estranged from life without war while being terrified by war , of being brave and afraid . What makes these writers different from one another is not ...
... Sassoon , and Nancy Nicholson , his clos- est confidants . I have looked closely at selected poems in manuscript to let the explication tell the tale by significant example rather than by repeti- tion . I have looked at the first ...
... Sassoon , and Edward Marsh are from the Canneluñ Archive and are published here with the permission of the Robert Graves Trust . Quotations from Catherine Dal- ton's letters appear here with her permission . Reference to the letter from ...
The Goddess Beckons Frank L. Kersnowski. Austin . Quotations from Siegfried Sassoon Diaries appear with permis- sion from Faber and Faber , and quotations from his Complete Poems and The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston appear with ...
... Sassoon noted that in a conversation with Virginia Woolf , " We gossiped about the obvious names - Hardy , Gosse , Wells , Lady Colfax , Middleton Murray , T. S. Eliot , Robert Graves , Al- dous Huxley etc. " ( Diaries 2:79 ) . No ...
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