Product Description

Graves described poetry as his ruling passion, and for him love was 'the main theme and origin of true poems'. He created a rich mythology where love, fear, fantasy and the supernatural play an essential role. Intimate yet universal, passionate yet precise, their brilliant alchemy of realism and magic made Graves's poems some of the finest of the last century. In this edition the poems appear without critical apparatus or commentary. The volume represents in its purest form the achievement of Graves's seventy productive years.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #267688 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 944 pages

About the Author
Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He published many historical novels and translations as well as his autobiography, but his principal calling was poetry. He died in 1985 in Majorca. The Times wrote of him 'He will be remembered for his achievements as a prose stylist, historical novelist and memoirist, but above all as the great paradigm of the dedictated poet, "the greatest love poet in English since Donne".'