Graves described poetry as his ruling passion, and for him love was 'the main theme and origin of true poems'. He created a rich mythology where love, fear, fantasy and the supernatural play an essential role. Intimate yet universal, passionate yet precise, their brilliant alchemy of realism and magic made Graves' poems some of the finest of the last century. In this edition the poems appear without critical apparatus or commentary. The volume represents in its purest form the achievement of Graves' seventy productive years.
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Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He published many historical novels and translations as well as his autobiography, but his principal calling was poetry. He died in 1985 in Majorca. The Times wrote of him 'He will be remembered for his achievements as a prose stylist, historical novelist and memoirist, but above all as the great paradigm of the dedictated poet, "the greatest love poet in English since Donne".'
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The youngest poet down the shelves was fumbling In a dim library, just behind the chair From which the ancient poet was mum-mumbling A song about some lovers at a Fair, Pulling his long white beard and gently grumbling That rhymes were troublesome things and never there. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Robert Graves, John Cole, Mock Beggar Hall, Beaumont Street, Dynamite Barbee, Mother Superior, Royal Welch Fusiliers, Sunday While, The Safe, Black Horse Lane, Our Lady, Peeping Tom, Richard Roe, Robert Grarr, Tilly Kettle, God Save the King, Indian Sea, Richard Rolls, Robot Giaz, Samuel Butler, Tom Noddy New!
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The youngest poet down the shelves was fumbling In a dim library, just behind the chair From which the ancient poet was mum-mumbling A song about some lovers at a Fair, Pulling his long white beard and gently grumbling That rhymes were troublesome things and never there. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fetchèd hame, voice cruel, uncollected poems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Robert Graves, John Cole, Mock Beggar Hall, Beaumont Street, Dynamite Barbee, Mother Superior, Royal Welch Fusiliers, Sunday While, The Safe, Black Horse Lane, Our Lady, Peeping Tom, Richard Roe, Robert Grarr, Tilly Kettle, God Save the King, Indian Sea, Richard Rolls, Robot Giaz, Samuel Butler, Tom Noddy New!
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