Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July, 1895 – 7 December, 1985) was an English scholar, poet, and novelist. During his long life, he produced more than 140 works in total. He was the son of Alfred Perceval Graves, the Anglo-Irish writer. The historian Leopold von Ranke was his mother's uncle, and he inherited the name.
In 1917, Graves played an important part in saving his fellow poet, Siegfried Sassoon, from a court-martial after the latter went absent without leave and wrote to his commanding officer denouncing the war. The two officers had become firm friends while serving with the RWF. Graves's biographies document the story well, and it is fictionalised in Pat Barker's novel Regeneration. The intensity of their early relationship is nowhere demonstrated more clearly than in Graves's Fairies and Fusiliers (1916), which collection contains a plethora of poems celebrating their friendship. Sassoon himself remarked upon a "heavy sexual element" within it, which observation is heavily supported by the sentimental nature of much of the surviving correspondence between the two men. Through Sassoon, Graves also encountered Wilfred Owen, whose talent he recognised. Owen attended Graves's wedding to Nancy Nicholson in 1918, presenting him with, as Graves recalled, "a set of twelve Apostle spoons".
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Danny Yee's Book Reviews: Robert Graves - Brief reviews of six historical novels.
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Robert Graves - Provides biographical notes on the author and the full text of Fairies and Fusiliers.
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Robert Graves - An Academy of American Poets Poetry Exhibit, consisting of a brief biography, one audio recording, and links to various related resources.
Robert Graves and His Contemporaries - Includes biographical information, a collection of essays online, and links to further resources.
Robert Graves Trust, Archive and Society - Offers bibliographical, biographical, archival and academic information on the poet and novelist, Robert Graves.
The Robert Graves Archive - Features checklists of the contents of major Graves Archives worldwide, two lists which detail both individual and institutional holders of relevant materials, and an overview of the holdings of major academic institutions.
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