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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... and its deity. PerhapsGraves's biography could be written fromsuch a perspective, butit has not been. The tracking and equating of the detailsofhis life with his spiritual commitment would strain any scholar's talent andthe credibility ...
... AND THE POET I CHAPTER 2 THE LUNATIC : WAR 28 CHAPTER 3 THE LUNATIC : AFTER THE WAR 50 CHAPTER 4 THE LOVER IN THE NURSERY 79 CHAPTER 5 THE LOVER 100 CHAPTER 6 THE POET 130 Afterword 159 Works Cited 165 Index 170 PREFACE The Argument ...
... and The White Goddess, having sought out such, then, rare works as Over the Brazier, his first volume of poetry, and very recent works,such as Mammon and the Black GoddessandThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, both of which Robert Graves ...
... and literary figures of his time , and had written poetry and critical studies that had brought him fame if not money . Then , in the midst of personal scan- dal , he abandoned England and moved to a rural village on Mallorca , one of ...
... and compulsiveness were recorded by innumerable writ- ers and artists , from Hemingway and cummings to Sassoon and Graves among the Allies . Their opponents told similar tales of being estranged from life without war while being ...
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