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Conversations with Robert Graves

Though he lived most of his life in the remote village of Deya on the island of Mallorca, Robert Graves (1895--1985) was conversant with the most important issues of this century and was acquainted with many of the most powerful people. Jorge Luis Borges called him "a soul above." Graves wrote almost restlessly on subjects of great diversity: myths of the Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, and Celts; modern science and economics; contemporary society and culture as well as of ancient Greece and Rome, of Celtic Wales and Ireland, of the time of Milton, and of the American Revolution. He was a poet of great fame, a celebrated writer of historical novels, and the man who imprinted the name and identity of the White Goddess upon the cultural language. His translations of Latin classics have been applauded; his recastings of Biblical and Persian texts attracted irascible attention from scholars. He was a poet of great fame, a celebrated writer of historical novels, and the man who imprinted the name and identity of the White Goddess upon the cultural language. His translations of Latin classics have been applauded; his recastings of Biblical and Persian texts attracted irascible attention from scholars
Print Book, English, ©1989
University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, ©1989
interviews
xvii, 183 pages : portrait ; 24 cm.
9780878054138, 9780878054145, 0878054138, 0878054146
19554195
Retreat from Parnassus / Peter Quenell
27 April 1925 / Virginia Woolf
An evening in Maida Vale / Julian Symons
Where truth begins / T.S. Matthews
I reminded him of Muggleton / Alan Sillitoe
A talk with Robert Graves: English poet in Majorca / Arnold Sherman
Robert Graves demurs / Robert Graves
Conversations with Robert Graves / John Haller
Robert Graves / Huw P. Wheldon
A Redbook dialogue / Gina Lollabrigida
The poet and the peasant / Kenneth Allsop
Robert Graves at home / Frank Kersnowski
A conversation with Robert Graves / Juan Bonet
Flawed science, damaged human life: an interview with Robert Graves / Bruno Friedman
The art of poetry XI: Robert Graves / Peter Buckman and William Fifield
Speaking freely / Edwin Newman
In Robert Graves's olive grove / Gábor Devecseri
Playboy interview: Robert Graves / James McKinley
A meeting with Robert Graves / Dannie Abse
The Graves I know / James Reeves
Robert Graves at deyá / Jose Luis Borges
Includes index