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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... published several books and numerous articles . Front cover silhouette of Robert Graves in the uniform of a lieutenant of the Royal Welch Fusiliers from a 1914 photograph . THE EARLY POETRY OF ROBERT GRAVES This One 34ZX -
... published in 1924, “A History,” he called this spirit “the deathwhite Fay.” Graves saw thefeminine as the fundamental forceinlife, both inhis personal lifeand inthelifeof theculture. He would claim matriarchy as the basic form of ...
... published work andfrom unpublished manuscripts appear here with the permission of the A. P. Watt Ltd. and Carcanet Press on behalf of the Robert Graves Copyright Trust,the BergCollection atthe New York PublicLibrary, theModern Poetry ...
... published The White Goddess . He had also gained the animosity of Ezra Pound , which he returned in kind . W. H. Auden had become an admirer ; Graves would follow him as Oxford Professor of Po- etry . From the time of his return to ...
... published in 1924 , " A History , " he called this spirit " the death - white Fay . " Graves saw the femi- nine as the fundamental force in life , both in his personal life and in the life of the culture . He would claim matriarchy as ...
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