Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Wilson, Jean Moorcroft (1941-....)
Titre(s) : Robert Graves [Texte imprimé] : from Great war poet to "Good-bye to all that" (1895-1929) / Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Publication : London : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-461 p.-[16] p. de pl. : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-441) and index
"The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he had published
during and just after the First World War. Until his son, William Graves, reprinted
almost all the Poems About War in 1988, Graves's status as a 'war poet' seems to have
depended mainly on his prose memoir (and bestseller) Goodbye to All That. None of
the previous biographies written on Graves, however excellent, attempt to deal with
this paradox in any depth. Robert Graves the war poet and the suppressed poems themselves
have been largely neglected--until now. Jean Moorcroft Wilson, celebrated biographer
of poets Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas, relates Graves's fascinating
life during this period, his experiences in the war, his being left for dead at the
battle of the Somme, his leap from a third-storey window after his lover Laura Riding's
even more dramatic jump from the fourth storey, his move to Spain and his final 'goodbye'
to 'all that.' In this deeply-researched new book, containing startling material never
before brought to light, Dr. Moorcroft Wilson traces not only Graves's compelling
life, but also the development of his poetry during the First World War, his thinking
about the conflict and his shifting attitude towards it. [This book] sheds new light
on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War poetry
is incomplete."--Jacket
Sujet(s) : Graves, Robert (1895-1985)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1472929144. - ISBN 9781472929143 (rel.). - ISBN 9781472929150 (erroné). - ISBN
9781472929167 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45613537v
Notice n° :
FRBNF45613537
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 'A mixed litter' ; Victorian beginnings and an Edwardian education (1895-1909)
; Charterhouse: 'the public school spirit' (1909-12) ; Charterhouse: of cherry-whisky
and other matters (1912-14) ; 'On finding myself a soldier' (August 1914-May 1915)
; 'These soul-deadening trenches' (May-July 1915) ; The battle of Loos (August-October
1915) ; Siegfried Sassoon and a recipe for rum punch (October 1915-March 1916) ;
The road to High Wood (March-July 1916) ; The survivor (July 1916-February 1917)
; A change of direction (March-June 1917) ; A protest, Craiglockhart and 'a capable
farmer's boy' (June-July 1917) ; The fairy and the fusilier (October 1917-January
1918) ; Babes in the wood (January 1918-January 1919) ; A poet on Parnassus (January-October
1919) ; Oxford and 'pier-glass hauntings' (October 1919-March 1921) ; 'Roots down
into a cabbage patch' (1921-5) ; From psychology to philosophy and beyond ; Into
the unknown: Cairo and Laura Riding (January-June 1926) ; The world well lost (June
1926-April 1927) ; 'Free love corner' (May 1927- October 1928) ; 'Like the plot
of a Russian novel' (February-April 1929) ; 'A doom-echoing shout' (26 April-June
1929) ; Good-bye to all that (June-November 1929).
