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Keane explores the interaction of emotion and artistry within the poetry and personality of Robert Graves, while analyzing Graves' allusion to earlier English poetry.

"It was in 1940, after fourteen turbulent years with his muse, the American poet Laura Riding, that Robert Graves (1895-1985) settled down to begin raising a second family with his new partner Beryl Hodge in Devon. There he wrote a series of best-selling historical novels, including most notably Wife to Mr. Milton (1943) and the Golden Fleece (1944). But the shadow of Laura Riding was never far away; and in 1944 Graves was seized by a compulsion to...

The history of the torrid, florid, and in all ways remarkable relationship between English poet Robert Graves and American poet Laura Riding. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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 post-war British society. In this study of Graves's early poetry, Frank Kersnowski...