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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... wife Nancy Nicholson . He made her responsible for his health and sanity . In time , he would see both him- self and his devotion to a woman as necessary for his spiritual awareness and , unquestionably , for his poetry . Woman as muse ...
... (a prophet, and as yet honoured only by a few lines in Time, which she apparently did not repudiate when it had an initial capital), she broke up another family also consisting of a wife and husband and four children. But it is possible.
... wife forced me to . I left with that woman , and my wife left with her husband . " The story of that period in his life has been told by Martin Seymour - Smith , Richard Perceval Graves , and Miranda Seymour in greater detail than is of ...
... wife , Kitty , suffered extreme psychological trauma , or in the words of Martin Seymour - Smith , she went " mad ” in 1939. No one likes to talk about them . Laura Riding ( so it would appear to an outsider ) came to England in 1926 ...
... wife , Nancy Nicholson , who re- fused the hospitality of Lady Ottoline Morrell ; of their four children ; of the shop he and Nancy ran ; and of his family , including important ances- tors whom he despised . She drew the only ...
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