Biography of Robert Graves tracing his WWI service, suppressed war poetry, and turbulent personal life through 1929.
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Biography of Robert Graves tracing his WWI service, suppressed war poetry, and turbulent personal life through 1929.
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The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all the poems he had published during and just after the First World War. Until his son, William Graves, reprinted almost all the Poems About War in 1988, Graves's status as a "war poet" seems to have depended mainly on his prose memoir Goodbye to All That . None of the previous biographies written on Graves attempt to deal with this paradox in any depth. The suppressed poems themselves have been largely neglected--until now. Jean Moorcroft ...
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Sexual content
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Marriage, Laura Riding affair, and unconventional relationships discussed
Violence & gore
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WWI combat including the Somme; Graves wounded and left for dead
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Explores Graves's early same-sex attractions and conflicted sexuality
Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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WWI context and Graves's shifting attitudes toward the conflict
Self-harm / suicide
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Riding's window suicide attempt; Graves jumps after her
Abuse & suffering
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Combat trauma, shell shock, and psychological damage from WWI
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