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The early poetry of Robert Graves :

(Number (ISBN

0292796390

(Number (ISBN

9780292796393

Erroneous ISBN

0292743432

Erroneous ISBN

9780292743434

Number

b784333

Title Proper

The early poetry of Robert Graves :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the goddess beckons /

First Statement of Responsibility

Frank L. Kersnowski.

Edition Statement

1st ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Austin :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Texas Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2002.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xvi, 174 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations.

Series Title

Literary modernism series

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-169) and index.

Text of Note

The lunatic, the love, and the poet -- The lunatic: war -- The lover in the nursery -- The poet.

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Text of Note

Like many men of his generation, poet Robert Graves was indelibly marked by his experience of trench warfare in World War I. The horrific battles in which he fought and his guilt over surviving when so many perished left Graves shell-shocked and disoriented, desperately seeking a way to bridge the rupture between his conventional upbringing and the uncertainties of post-war British society. In this study of Graves's early poetry, Frank Kersnowski explores how his war neurosis opened a door into the unconscious for Graves and led him to reject the essential components of the Western idea of reality-reason and predictability. In particular, Kersnowski traces the emergence in Graves's early poems of a figure he later called "The White Goddess," a being at once terrifying and glorious, who sustains life and inspires poetry. Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven by the purpose of celebrating and explaining this deity and her matriarchy.

Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

OverDrive, Inc.

Stock Number

22573/ctt8wk9m

Stock Number

DF936AF3-FEF2-416A-93CC-681BB59C3095

Title

Early poetry of Robert Graves.

International Standard Book Number

0292743432

Graves, Robert,1895-1985-- Childhood and youth.

Graves, Robert,1895-1985.

Graves, Robert,1895-1985

Authors, English-- 20th century, Biography.

Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain.

Soldiers-- Great Britain, Biography.

War neuroses-- Patients, Biography.

World War, 1914-1918-- Veterans, Biography.

Authors, English

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Modernism (Literature)

POETRY-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Soldiers

Veterans

Great Britain

7

BIO-- 007000

LIT004120

POE-- 005020

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Kersnowski, Frank L.,1934-

Date of Transaction

20201206223034.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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