Facts about Robert Graves
Robert Graves Biography
Robert Graves was a poet, professor, and the author of Goodbye to All That (1929), a landmark anti-heroic memoir of life in the trenches during World War I.
Graves is perhaps even better known for his historical novels about the Roman emperor Claudius: I, Claudius (1934) and Claudius the God (1935).
Despite those successes, Graves was primarily a poet: he published dozens of volumes of his verse during his life, and was professor of poetry at Oxford from 1961-66.
Graves lived most of his adult life on the island of Majorca, at first with fellow poet Laura Riding, and later with his second wife Beryl Hodge.
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The highly successful BBC mini-series I, Claudius (1976) was based on Graves’s work… His fellow professors at Oxford included Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien… Graves is no relation to the architect Michael Graves.
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- From 1970, with his thoughts, four poems, and a shot of him looking half-crazy
- Excellent pithy biography of Graves, hitting all the high points
- Archived edition of a detailed bio from a University of Maryland professor
- In-depth collection of Gravesiana, including his diaries online