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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... accept a position at the Royal University in Cairo , and resign in less than a year vowing never again to be in anyone's employ . Though not financially independent in 1925 , Graves was no innocent in dealing with publishers and agents ...
... accepted as " Captain Graves , " who played rugger and sat with the village council . H. E. Palmer wrote of going to visit Graves at Islip in an unpublished essay titled " Robert Graves at World's End " ( UTHRC ) . For him , Graves was ...
... accepted the relationship encouraged by single - sex schools and had a romance with a younger boy , for Graves an idealistic relationship suitable for a knight and his lady , as this poem , " 1915 , " shows . After describing life in ...
... accepted the importance of the English past , including the rights of the privileged classes , and those who were professional intellectuals , such as Richard Aldington . The differences between Graves and Aldington would later ap- pear ...
... accepting The White Goddess for publication , Eliot had a Nobel Prize and an O.M. Reflecting on the history of those who rejected the book and Eliot who accepted it , Graves said to Martin Seymour - Smith : " Makes you think , doesn't ...
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