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Robert Graves's poetry centres around the tension between the "practical impossibility" and the transcendent "miracle" of love between a man and a woman. Surrounding the central theme is a mythology in which the White Goddess (the muse who inspires a poet in love) plays an essential role.
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About the Author
Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0141186364
- ISBN 13 9780141186368
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages272
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