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 Robert von Ranke Graves ( 1895-07-24 – 1985-12-07 ) was a prolific English poet, scholar and novelist. He is best known for his autobiographical work Goodbye to All That , and works on classical themes and mythology, such as I, Claudius , The Greek... 
 
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Robert (von Ranke) Graves | | Variant Name: |
Robert (von Ranke) Graves, Robert von Ranke Graves, John Doyle, Barbara Rich, Robert Ranke Graves | | Birth Date: |
July 24, 1895 | | Death Date: |
December 7, 1985 | | Place of Birth: |
Wimbledon, England | | Nationality: |
British, English | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Robert Ranke Graves
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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... summary from source:
Biography of Robert Ranke Graves
17,600 words, approx. 59 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 criticism of poetry, "is better than the truly good,... summary from source:
 Biography of Robert (Von Ranke) Graves
5,422 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 of the dedicated poet, 'the greatest love poet in...
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 Robert Graves Information
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Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July, 1895 – 7 December, 1985) was an English poet, scholar, and novelist. During his long life, he produced more than 140 works. He was the son of the Anglo-Irish writer Alfred Perceval Graves and Amalie von Ranke. The...
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 The Boston Globe The amusement of Robert Graves
09/13/1998: 1,404 words, approx. 5 pages ROBERT GRAVES AND THE WHITE GODDESS, 1940-1985 By Richard Perceval Graves. Phoenix/Trafalgar Square. 618 pp. $27.50 (paper). William H. Pritchard, professor of English at Amherst College, is the biographer of Randall Jarrell and Robert Frost. A new collection of his essays, "Talking Back to... summary from source:
The Economist (US) Robert Graves: Life on the Edge.
07/08/1995: 843 words, approx. 3 pages WILD OLIVES: LIFE IN MAJORCA WITH ROBERT GRAVES. By William Graves. Hutchinson; 262 pages; Pounds 18.99. ROBERT GRAVES: LIFE ON THE EDGE. By Miranda Seymour. Doubleday; 512 pages; Pounds 20. ROBERT GRAVES: HIS LIFE AND WORK. By Martin Seymour-Smith. Bloomsbury; 600 pages;... summary from source:
 AP News Today in history - April 8
4/8/2007: 602 words, approx. 2 pagesToday is Easter Sunday, April 8, the 98th day of 2007. There are 267 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 8, 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers,...
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 Critical Essay by Monroe K. Spears
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Oxford Addresses on Poetry discusses "the hard core of our English poetic inheritance, namely poems inspired by the Muse rather than commissioned by Apollo, God of Reason," to quote Graves's foreword. "A good many of the younger University members agreed with me that such poems are alone likely to survive concentrated pressures from commercialized or politically slanted literature and entertainment," Graves observes, and continues: "The ornate academic Victorian tra... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Patrick Grant
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In a brief but sharp review of Graves' The Greek Myths,… [H. J. Rose complains] that Graves includes "sentimentalities of his own devising, legitimate enough in a work of the imagination, but quite out of place in a handbook of mythology, where a story should be told as the authorities tell it, or epitomized from their account." (p. 145) The predicament can be summarized simply: the contemporary mythographer inherits a formidable equipment of technology and scholarship, and can n... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Robert H. Canary
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[The framework of Watch the North Wind Rise] exhibits a duality characteristic of the genre of the "fantastic," [and] it provides an example of the way in which similar dualities may be found in utopian works…. (pp. 248-49) Although set in a future alternative world, Watch the North Wind Rise maintains a certain tension between natural and supernatural explanations for what Venn-Thomas sees in New Crete, as well as for the dream-journey which takes him there. The poet-magicians who have...
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