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Robert Graves


Born
in Wimbledon, England
July 24, 1895

Died
December 07, 1985

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs


Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, soldier, historical novelist and critic. Born in Wimbledon, he received his early education at King's College School and Copthorne Prep School, Wimbledon & Charterhouse School and won a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford. While at Charterhouse in 1912, he fell in love with G.H. Johnstone, a boy of fourteen ("Dick" in Goodbye to All That) When challenged by the headmaster he defended himself by citing Plato, Greek poets, Michelangelo & Shakespeare, "who had felt as I did".

At the outbreak of WWI, Graves enlisted almost immediately, taking a commission in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He published his first volume of poems, Over the Brazier, in 1916. He developed an early reputation as a war poet ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 194,596 ratings · 10,679 reviews · 634 distinct works • Similar authors
I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
4.24 avg rating — 72,877 ratings — published 1934 — 403 editions
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Claudius the God and His Wi...
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Goodbye to All That
3.93 avg rating — 15,517 ratings — published 1929 — 194 editions
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The Greek Myths: Complete E...
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The White Goddess: A Histor...
4.03 avg rating — 3,635 ratings — published 1961 — 106 editions
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I, Claudius/Claudius the God
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Count Belisarius
4.02 avg rating — 2,919 ratings — published 1938 — 17 editions
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The Greek Myths 1
4.07 avg rating — 1,830 ratings — published 1955 — 83 editions
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Greek Gods and Heroes (Laur...
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“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”
― Robert Graves
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“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”
― Robert Graves
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“When the immense drugged universe explodes
In a cascade of unendurable colour
And leaves us gasping naked,
This is no more than the ectasy of chaos:
Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love
Which alone, as we know certainly, restores
Fragmentation into true being.

Ecstasy of Chaos”
― Robert Graves, Poems 1965-1968
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Polls

December 2022 Short Story/Novella Poll

 
  45 votes, 25.4%

A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka, 84 pages, 1924
 
  44 votes, 24.9%

 
  30 votes, 16.9%

The Christmas Truce by Robert Graves, 16 pages, 1962
 
  28 votes, 15.8%

The Murder of a Buttercup, as found in, The Ballerina and the Body by Alfred Döblin
 
  12 votes, 6.8%

 
  11 votes, 6.2%

Tonka And Other Stories Title Story Only by Robert Musil, 65 pages, 1924
 
  7 votes, 4.0%

177 total votes
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