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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... close to the Caucusus , Robert Graves changed into his walking shorts . A poet as accomplished and as important as any in this century stood in front of me in his white boxer underwear , chatting away . Certainly unex- pected and ...
... close . He had the gentlemanly attributes of a sportsman : he looked good in his uniform , he rode well , and he had letters of introduc- tion . He had considerable experience of the world and knew the difference between a good vintage ...
... close , close enough to publish The White Goddess at Faber after it had twice been turned down by other publishers . Graves had his own particular view of his efforts at getting the book published 14 THE EARLY POETRY OF ROBERT GRAVES.
... close , I quote from the first except where Graves's revision includes a reflection missing from the first version . The continuing effect on Graves of trench warfare was then called " neurasthenia " ; we now call it " post - traumatic ...
... close simi- larities with those of abused children . Graves does not seem to have had such a childhood ; and as Catherine Dalton wrote to me on 31 October 1997 , hers was a " normal and happy childhood until my parents split up ...
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