Robert Graves (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Robert Graves published fifteen novels, including one (No Decency Left, 1932) written in collaboration with Laura Riding. His novels are usually based on historical events or mythology. I, Claudius (1934) and Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (1934) borrow heavily from Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars (c. 120 c.e.). Count Belisarius (1938) concerns the brilliant general of the Byzantine emperor Justinian. Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth (1940) and Proceed, Sergeant Lamb (1941) fictionalize the life of an...
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