Graves, Robert van Ranke
Graves, Robert van Ranke ( 1895 – 1985 ),son of A. P. Graves , born in London and educated at Charterhouse; he joined the army in 1914 and his first poetry appeared (with the encouragement of E. Marsh ) while he was serving in the First World War (Over the Brazier, 1916 ; Fairies and Fusiliers, 1917 ); his poems also appeared in Georgian Poetry . In 1918 he married, and in 1919 went to St John's College, Oxford, to read English, though he left without taking a degree, later successfully submitting a critical work, Poetic Unreason and Other Studies ( 1925 ), as a thesis for a B.Litt. In 1926 , accompanied by his wife and a new acquaintance, Laura Riding , he went briefly to Egypt as professor of literature. He was to live and work with Laura Riding in Majorca, then Brittany, until 1939 , publishing various works in collaboration with her, including A Survey of Modernist...
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