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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... letters appear here with her permission. Reference to the letter fromCarl JungtoLawrence Durrell is included with permission from Special Collections of Southern Illinois University at Acknowledgments.
... 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.
The Goddess Beckons Frank L. Kersnowski. Letter from Robert Graves to Frank Kersnowski When she came back to her own country (a prophet, and as yet honoured only by a few lines in Time, which she apparently did not repudiate when it had ...
... letters appear here with her permission . Reference to the letter from Carl Jung to Lawrence Durrell is included with permission from Special Collections of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale . Quotation from a reflection on ...
... letter I wrote almost whimsically and with as much expectation of a reply as I have of suddenly acquiring great wealth . The letter I received is on the opposite page , reflective and warm , a very personal response to a complete ...
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