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Robert Graves

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There were many fine, powerful memoirs published about the First World War, and Robert Graves' Good-Bye to All That is considered to be one of the most honest and insightful. The descriptions of battle are horrifying, and the descriptions of military bungling and pomposity are darkly amusing. Graves' factual tone makes the remarkable seem unremarkable and the ordinary seem well worth examining. The book was published in 1929, more than ten years after the...

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Robert Graves Biographies (5)

Robert Ranke Graves

1,124 words, approx. 4 pages

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 ... Read more

Robert Ranke Graves

17,660 words, approx. 59 pages

Biography EssayRobert 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... Read more

Robert (von Ranke) Graves

16,776 words, approx. 56 pages

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 cri... Read more

Robert (von Ranke) Graves

3,904 words, approx. 14 pages

Robert Graves's reputation must rest chiefly on his poetry and historical fiction; as an essayist he is extremely uneven. His essays are generally polemical, frequently eccentric. As a literary critic... Read more

Robert (Von Ranke) Graves

5,346 words, approx. 18 pages

On his death in 1985 The Times of London wrote of Robert Graves: "He will be remembered for his achievements as a prose stylist, historical novelist and memoirist, but above all as the great paradigm ... Read more

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Different ways Graves explores his war experiences, in the following two contrasting passages

1,412 words, approx. 5 pages

Write about the different ways Graves explores his war experiences, in the following two contrasting passages (98-101) and (235-236) Graves' autobiography "Goodbye to All That" is seen to be one of ... Read more

Robert Graves' Good-bye To All That

688 words, approx. 3 pages

As Robert Graves begins his autobiography, Good-bye to All That, he tells his readers about the two sides of his family and how they have impacted who he is. Both sides have had significant roles in ... Read more

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