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Graves, Robert

From Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature: The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction
Robert von Ranke Graves, born July 24, 1895, grew up in Wimbledon, England; as a result of his experiences and injuries in the trenches of the Western Front in World War I, he chose to leave England and seek a rural way of life. In 1929 Graves moved to the small mountain village of Deya, Mallorca, which was his home until his death on December 7, 1985. Graves is best known as the author of historical novels. His I, Claudius (1934), produced as a BBC television series in the 1970s, and its sequel Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (1956) made his name a household word. Yet Graves was a twentieth-century Renaissance man: his body of work includes poetry (Graves viewed himself as a poet first and foremost), more than a dozen historical novels, autobiography, studies of mythology and ethnography, writing guides, translation, social commentary, literary criticism. Graves's autobiography Good-Bye to All That (1929) is one of the most influential memoirs to come out of World War I. His…
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Full text Article Robert Graves 1895–1985

From The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
English poet Beware, madam, of the witty devil, The arch intriguer who walks disguised In a poet's cloak, his gay tongue oozing evil. ‘Beware, Madam!’ There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear. ‘The Cool Web’ (1927) Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon…
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Full text Article Graves, Robert (von Ranke) (1895–1985)

From The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry
Born in Wimbledon, the son of the Irish poet and folklorist Alfred Perceval Graves and his second wife. He began to write poetry while still at Charterhouse School, being encouraged by one of his schoolmasters there, the mountaineer George Mallory, as well as by Edward Marsh. When war broke out, he…
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English writer. He lived abroad for much of his adult life. His works include novels, poems, essays, studies of mythology, criticism, and his autobiography, Goodbye to All That (1929). 15 His eyes are quickened so with grief, He can watch a grass or a leaf Every instant grow. 1921 ‘Lost Love’. Love…
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Full text Article POETS

From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it. AUDEN, W. H. The Dyer’s Hand (1963). I agree with one of your reputable critics that a taste for drawing-rooms has spoiled more poets than ever did a taste for…
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Full text Article GRAVES, Robert (Ranke) (1895–1985)

From The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
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Full text Article GRIEF

From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
We met ... Dr Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. [Letter to Cassandra Austen, 1799] [A cypress] Dark tree, still sad when others’ grief isfled,The only constant mourner o’er thedead! BYRON, Lord ‘ The Giaour ’ (1813). Grief is itself a…
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Full text Article Graves, A[lfred] P[erceval] (1846-1931)

From Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable
Poet and editor. He was born in Dublin on 22 July 1846, the son of Charles Graves (1812-99), professor of mathematics and later Anglican Bishop of Limerick. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin and later became a school inspector in England. He compiled many anthologies of Irish poetry and…
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Full text Article He Smiles Within His Cradle

From The Christmas Encyclopedia
(“Ein Kindlein in der Wiegen”). Austrian traditional carol, also known as “A Baby Lies in the Cradle” and “A Baby in the Cradle,” the text of which is thought to date from the fourteenth century. Although it appeared with an altogether different tune in a publication of 1590, the more familiar tune…
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Full text Article I, Claudius

From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
A historical novel (1934) by Robert Graves (1895-1985) about the emperor Claudius (10   BC -   AD 54), who in   AD 41 succeeded his nephew Caligula in unlikely fashion as ruler of the Roman empire. It begins: 'I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not…
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