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Complete Poems Vol I

Robert Graves

Edited by Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward

Robert Graves, Complete Poems Volume I (cover)
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Available as:
Hardback (320 pages)
(Pub. Nov 1995)
9781857541717
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  • This is the first of the monumental three-volume Complete Poems of Robert Graves, edited by Dunstan Ward and the poet's widow Beryl Graves. It restores hundreds of poems that Graves omitted from the canon or overlooked in his continual refinements and, with its scholarly apparatus, will lead to a revaluation of his entire poetic oeuvre. Randall Jarrell wrote: 'Some [of the poems] are extraordinary, many are masterly, all are like nothing else ever written in them many things -- some of them most unusual things -- are well felt, well seen, well imagined, and well expressed.'
    Robert Graves
    Robert Graves (1895-1985), poet, classical scholar, novelist, and critic, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century. Athough he produced over 100 books he is perhaps best known for the novel I, Claudius (1934), The White Goddess (1948) and Greek Myths (1955). Robert Graves was born in Wimbledon, South ... read more
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