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The English poet Robert Graves (1895-1985) was also a very productive novelist, mythographer, critic and historian, with over 130 books to his credit. He was once nominated for the Nobel Prize. Robert Ranke Graves was the son of a minor poet and celebrat...

Robert Graves may well be remembered as the preeminent minor poet of the twentieth century. He would not be disturbed by the label. "Nothing," he said in his sixties in a lecture on the legitimate criticism of poetry, "is better than the truly good, not...

Robert Graves may well be remembered as the preeminent minor poet of the twentieth century. He would not be disturbed by the label. "Nothing," he said in his sixties in a lecture on the legitimate criticism of poetry, "is better than the truly good, not...

AT ONE OF Ronald Reagan's glittering farewell parties, my wife had her picture taken while chatting with the President. "How will people know that you aren't a cardboard character?" she asked him lightly. Ronald Reagan, acknowledging the thin distinction public life often draws...

This is the last editorial I will write for Wings & Airpower. After 40 years of reporting on airplanes and the men who conceived, built and flew them, it's time to call it a career. I have no regrets. The work has been...

Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That, an autobiography of his accounts of the first world war.  The essay explores the wars; he depicts his war experiences in two diverse periods of his life.

Robert Graves' autobiography Good-bye To All That reveals how his family history shaped his life. His father's lineage, including a line of poets, mathematicians, archaeologists, and theologians, was the greater influence on Graves' life and identity.