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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... Graves signed for me. But I had not yet read the accumulating letters and manuscripts in university libraries, nor had I seen reason to be concerned with that part of his life Graves described as “unpublishable” in his afterword.
... concerned with that part of his life Graves described as " unpublishable " in his afterword to the revised edition of Good - Bye To All That ( 1957 ) . I wrote to him believing that the presence of the man would lead me through the maze ...
... concerned with what Robert told me or I would have pub- lished an unguarded remark as gossip in the costume of literary criticism . I saw no reason to write about my visit until his biographers had revealed more than he probably ...
... concern with poetry and his unwillingness or inability to fit in made him as " unpopular " at Charterhouse as Sassoon said he was in the regiment . A slight resemblance to Joyce's Stephen Dedalus exists here , but Stephen never drank ...
... concerns of his fellow officers , such a characterization would antagonize them . Graves's closest friends at ... concerned with resuscitating the dead art of rhyme , as Pound and the Imagists intended as well . Although Graves ...
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