Graves, Robert (Vol. 2) - Graves, Robert 1895–
Graves, Robert 1895–
Graves is an Anglo-Irish writer, living in Majorca, whose professionalism in poetry is directed by a Muse. He is also a novelist, critic, mythographer, and translator. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
[Robert Graves] has done admirable work as a critic of poetry, and very useful work as a defender of the liveliness, purity, and simplicity of the English language. He is unique as an historical novelist—he claims to have derived his historical method from his great-uncle, Leopold von Ranke—and around his Claudius novels there has formed a party of passionately loyal admirers….
In all he has done in prose there is a happy intelligence at work, and a wide and curious scholarship, and gracefulness and verve. There is even seriousness, manifested in the intensity of his devotion to one past or another, in the consistency of his dislike for modern culture. But the seriousness has always been...
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