Robert Graves
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Robert Graves was an English poet and novelist who lived from 1895 to 1985 and produced influential work across both genres during the twentieth century. He is remembered as an important literary figure whose writing reflected and shaped modern English literature.
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Robert Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life, he produced more than 140 works. He was the son of the Anglo-Irish writer Alfred Perceval Graves and Amalie von Ranke, a niece of historian Leopold von Ranke. He was the brother of the author Charles Patrick Graves and half-brother of Philip Graves. Graves' poems, together with his translations and innovative interpretations of the Greek Myths <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu
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Robert Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985), whose second name is sometimes given as von Ranke, was an English poet, novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celticists and students of Irish mythology.
Robert Graves produced more than 140 works in his lifetime. His poems, his translations, and innovative analysis of the Greek myths, his memoir of his early life—including his role in the First World War, Good-Bye to All That (1929), and his speculative study of poetic inspiration in The White Goddess (1948), have never been out of print. He was also a renowned short story writer, with work such as "The Tenement" still read.
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1895 births1985 deaths20th-century atheists20th-century English LGBTQ people20th-century English male writers20th-century English memoirists20th-century English non-fiction writers20th-century English novelists20th-century English poets20th-century English short story writers20th-century English translatorsAlumni of St John's College, Oxford