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 Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven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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... wrote to him in 1969, I had gone well beyond the obligatory readingofhis mostrecent Collected Poems(1961) and The White Goddess, having sought out such, then, rare works as Over the Brazier, his first volume of poetry, and very recent ...
... wrote to him in 1969 , I had gone well beyond the obliga- tory reading of his most recent Collected Poems ( 1961 ) and The White Goddess , having sought out such , then , rare works as Over the Brazier , his first volume of poetry , and ...
... 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 stranger ...
... wrote the core of The White Goddess : A historical grammar of poetic myth ( 1948 ) . As he said at the beginning of " To Juan at the Winter Solstice , " " There is one story and one story only / That will prove worth your telling ...
... wrote to me on 26 October 1997 : As for the White Goddess : Father did not conjure up the White Goddess from his mere imagination , but happened to have seen her- just when I have no idea - except that it would have been early in his ...
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