Biography
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Robert Graves —his full name was Robert von Ranke Graves— was born in Wimbledon, London, on July
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Robert attended various preparatory schools, and from the last of these, Copthorne, he won a scholarship
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Robert Graves had just left Charterhouse and joined his family in Wales, when England declared war on
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Robert met seventeen-year-old Nancy Nicholson, in May 1916 when on leave. She was the daughter of the
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Despite the fact that he was well connected with the literary establishment of the time, both in London
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When Graves and Riding left England in October 1929, they visited their friend Gertrude Stein in France
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On August 2nd 1935, after two weeks of uncertainly about the seriousness of the Franco uprising, the
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Back in England after the break-up with Laura, Graves was close to a nervous breakdown. But then Beryl,
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In May 1946, after having obtained visas to travel to Spain, Graves took his new family to Majorca. The
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The White Goddess had provided Graves with a coherent framework for his particular views on poetry and
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Graves refused most honours and Honoris Causa doctorates, but he did accept the Gold Medal for Poetry
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