{"product_id":"9781472929143","title":"Robert Graves : From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929)","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Graves\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jean Moorcroft Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all the poems he had published during and just after the First World War. Until his son, William Graves, reprinted almost all the \u003ci\u003ePoems About War\u003c\/i\u003e in 1988, Graves's status as a \"war poet\" seems to have depended mainly on his prose memoir \u003ci\u003eGoodbye to All That\u003c\/i\u003e. None of the previous biographies written on Graves attempt to deal with this paradox in any depth. The suppressed poems themselves have been largely neglected--until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Moorcroft Wilson, celebrated biographer of Siegfried Sassoon and Edward Thomas, relates Graves' fascinating life during the period from his birth up until the early 1930s: his experiences in the war, his being left for dead at the Battle of the Somme, his move to Spain, and his final \"goodbye\" to Sassoon in 1933. In this deeply-researched new book, containing startling archival material never previously revealed and little-studied poems, Moorcroft Wilson traces how Graves' compelling life informed the development of his poetry during the First World War, his thinking about the conflict and his shifting attitude towards it. This illuminating look at Graves' life and poetic work reaffirms his place among the important poets of the Great War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Graves: From Great War Poet to Goodbye to All That \u003c\/i\u003ecasts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War Poetry is incomplete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Commanding ... To encounter [Graves] in these pages is to feel something of the relentlessly explosive energy with which he lived the first half of his life. Wilson lands him like a Zeppelin bomb.” —\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Jean Moorcroft Wilson has built an unassailable reputation as our leading authority on the poets of the Great War ... Combining intelligent and perceptive criticism of his work, with revealing insights into the man, this study of the devastating impact of the conflict on Graves makes for compelling reading. I cannot recommend it too highly” —\u003ci\u003eNigel Jones, author of Rupert Brooke: Life, Death \u0026amp; Myth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Diligent and insightful ... Jean Moorcroft Wilson teases the truth from Graves's exaggerations, mis-rememberings and downright gibs ... She is by turns compassionate and caustic and is clear sighted … [Her] close reading of the war poems is illuminating.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Wilson unveils the poet behind the man struggling to make, not write, poetry [and] clarifies our understanding of what Graves was about” —\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Consistently illuminating” —\u003ci\u003eAndrew Motion, Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A sensitive rendering of the poet's formative years ... finely nuanced” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fine attempt to give Graves his due in the context of the Great War” —\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is an exemplary biography and a terrific entertainment … Wilson brings this difficult, unlovable but strangely impressive man yelpingly to life” —\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Deft and commanding ... On a par with her other outstanding biographies” —\u003ci\u003eBBC History Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“25 years after the last biography, a fresh approach … Measured and dispassionate … This is biography at its best” —\u003ci\u003eCountry Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A sensitive rendering of the poet's formative years … A sympathetic perspective on Graves' eventful life.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A well-researched, readable biography” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781472929143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Continuum","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40690270470350,"sku":"9781472929143","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781472929143","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}