The Early Poetry of Robert Graves

The Early Poetry of Robert Graves
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 9780292700819
ISBN-13 : 0292700814
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Book Synopsis The Early Poetry of Robert Graves by : Frank L. Kersnowski

Download or read book The Early Poetry of Robert Graves written by Frank L. Kersnowski and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many men of his generation, poet Robert Graves was indelibly marked by his experience of trench warfare in World War I. The horrific battles in which he fought and his guilt over surviving when so many perished left Graves shell-shocked and disoriented, desperately seeking a way to bridge the rupture between his conventional upbringing and the uncertainties of postwar British society. In this study of Graves's early poetry, Frank Kersnowski explores how his war neurosis opened a door into the unconscious for Graves and led him to reject the essential components of the Western idea of reality—reason and predictability. In particular, Kersnowski traces the emergence in Graves's early poems of a figure he later called "The White Goddess," a being at once terrifying and glorious, who sustains life and inspires poetry. Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven by the purpose of celebrating and explaining this deity and her matriarchy.


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