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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... Victorian time shakenfrom its unquestionedstability byFrazer's TheGolden Bough. That study of comparative religions and myths would have lent credibility to Graves for the dream symbolsof Freudthat were part ofhisstudy inthe twenties(17 ...
... Victorian time shaken from its unquestioned stability by Frazer's The Golden Bough . That study of com- parative religions and myths would have lent credibility to Graves for the dream symbols of Freud that were part of his study in the ...
... them . In a letter written on 3 February 1915 , Graves credits Edward Marsh with saving him from the Victorian influences of his father and his uncle . He mentions that in his father's " vinous 15 THE LUNATIC , THE LOVER , AND THE POET.
... Victorian- ism . ( BCNYPL ) With our hindsight , and his own less than five years after he wrote this letter , he does not seem to have been pulled very far by Edward Marsh . Considering his public school background and his father's ...
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