Born in Wimbledon, England, in 1895, Robert Graves was the son of a schoolmaster who was also a poet and songwriter. Graves attended Charterhouse, a British public school (the equivalent of an American private school). He grew, in his school years, increasingly committed to becoming a poet. When World War I broke out (1914), Graves joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers; seriously wounded in 1916, he was initially left for dead. That same year saw the publication of his first book of poems, Over the Brazier. After a lengthy recovery, during which Graves, like many of his comrades, suffered nightmares and shattered nerves, he returned to garrison duty in Wales until the last year of the war, 1918. Grave subsequently studied at St. John’s College, Oxford, meanwhile continuing to write poetry. In 1926 he met the American poet, Laura Riding, with whom he founded the Seizin Press; in 1929 Graves left his wife of 11 years and four children for Riding. The two settled in Majorca, Spain, where they lived through the time I, Claudius was published until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Graves had by then achieved some financial success with Good-bye to All That (1929), a bitter autobiography describing his own wartime experiences.
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