Graves, Robert (Vol. 6) - Graves, Robert 1895–

Graves, Robert 1895–

Graves, an Englishman of Irish and German ancestry, has lived in Majorca for many years. He is a poet, novelist, critic, translator, essayist, and mythographer. One of the major English poets of our time, Graves has always regarded himself not as a craftsman, shaping raw materials to his own order, but as a truth-teller, finding by means of intuition and continuous awareness the essence of the wisdom and perfection that exist totally outside himself. Martin Seymour-Smith has accurately noted that the influence of Laura Riding's poetry on Graves' own is so pervasive that study of the former is a prerequisite for understanding the latter. Seymour-Smith adds that Graves may be "the last romantic poet to operate within wholly traditional limits—and his mastery of these is not in question." (See Also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)

Robert Graves presents an attractive figure; he is diverse, he is multifaceted as...

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