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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... 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 Robert Graves lived an exciting life .
The Goddess Beckons Frank L. Kersnowski. PREFACE The Argument Robert Graves lived an exciting life . Before he was twenty , he was an offi- cer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers . Before he was thirty , he had fought in the Great War with ...
... lived , and he was only slightly injured . Nicholson and Phibbs left together with the four children , and Riding and Graves moved to Mal- lorca on the suggestion of Gertrude Stein . They lived platonically with each other on the island ...
... lived through several different personae in several re- alities . As Mad Jack he was suicidally heroic ; as the acquaintance of Ber- trand Russell he was a pacifist willing to risk court martial ; as a regular visitor at Garsington he ...
... lived . He 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 ...
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