Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Robert Graves (eBook, PDF)

From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929)

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That casts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War poetry is incomplete.

The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of 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 (and bestseller), Good-bye to All That. None of the previous biographies written on Graves, however excellent, attempt to deal with this paradox in any depth. Robert Graves the war poet and the suppressed poems themselves have been largely neglected - until now.

Jean Moorcroft Wilson, celebrated biographer of poets Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas, relates Graves's fascinating life during this period, his experiences in the war, his being left for dead at the Battle of the Somme, his leap from a third-storey window after his lover Laura Riding's even more dramatic jump from the fourth storey, his move to Spain and his final 'goodbye' to 'all that'.

In this deeply-researched new book, containing startling material never before brought to light, Dr Moorcroft Wilson traces not only Graves's compelling life, but also the development of his poetry during the First World War, his thinking about the conflict and his shifting attitude towards it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472929167
• Artikelnr.: 54819029

Autorenporträt

Jean Moorcroft Wilson is a celebrated biographer and leading expert on the First World War poets. Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper biography prize for her Isaac Rosenberg, she has also written biographies of Siegfried Sassoon, Charles Hamilton Sorley and Edward Thomas. She has lectured for many years at the University of London, as well as in the United States and South Africa. She is married to the nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, on whom she has also written a widely-praised biography of place.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Introduction 1 'A Mixed Letter' 2 Victorian Beginnings and an Edwardian Education (1895
1909) 3 Charterhouse: 'the Public School Spirit' (1909
12) 4 Charterhouse: Of Cherry
Whiskey and Other Matters (1912
14) 5 'On Finding Myself a Solider' (August 1914
May 1915) 6 'These Soul
Deadening Trenches' (May
July 1915) 7 The Battle of Loos (August
October 1915) 8 Siegfried Sassoon and a Recipe for Rum Punch (October 1915
March 1916) 9 The Road to High Wood (March
July 1916) 10 The Survivor (July 1916
February 1917) 11 A Change of Direction (March
June 1917) 12 A Protest, Craiglockhart and 'A Capable Farmer's Boy' (June
July 1917) 13 The Fairy and the Fusilier (October 1917
January 1918) 14 Babes in the Wood (January 1918
January 1919) 15 A Poet on Parnassus (January
October 1919) 16 Oxford and 'Pier
Glass Hauntings' (October 1919
March 1921) 17 'Roots Down into a Cabbage Patch' (1921
5) 18 From Psychology to Philosophy and Beyond 19 Into the Unknown: Cairo and Laura Riding (January
June 1926) 20 The World Well Lost (June 1926
April 1927) 21 'Free Love Corner' (May 1927
October 1928) 22 'Like the Plot of a Russian Novel' (February
April 1929) 23 'A Doom
Echoing Shout' (26 April
June 1929) 24 Good
bye to All That (June
November 1929) Abbreviations Notes Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Index