New Perspectives on Robert GravesPatrick J. Quinn Susquehanna University Press, 1999 - 229 pages Essays include studies on Grave's literary criticism, new insights into his poetry and fiction, reflections on the origins of his White Goddess and examinations of the literary cross-currents that have pollinated his work. The essays draw on new biographical material and manuscripts that have come to light in the last ten years. |
Contents
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Captain Gravess Postwar Strategies | 36 |
Robert Graves Modernism and the Poetic Body | 46 |
The Peripatetic in the Poetry of Robert Graves | 65 |
Graves and the Mythology of Desire | 84 |
Gravess Dissatisfaction Poetry of 1937 | 94 |
Gravess Short Story as a Model for His Longer Fictions Narrative Techniques | 107 |
Gravess Milton | 136 |
Ted Hughes and Robert Graves | 149 |
Robert Graves the Esoteric Tradition and the New Religion | 159 |
Robert Graves Daniel Defoe and Goodbye to All That | 175 |
Poetry Sex Religion and Feud | 188 |
The Pastoral Vision of Robert Graves | 209 |
Contributors | 220 |
Index | 224 |
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Page 193 - THAT is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations - at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect.
Page 117 - THE DEVIL'S ADVICE TO STORY, TELLERS Lest men suspect your tale to be untrue, Keep probability — some say — in view. But my advice to story-tellers is : Weigh out no gross of probabilities, Nor yet make diligent transcriptions of Known instances of virtue, crime or love. To forge a picture that will pass for true, Do conscientiously what liars do — Born liars, not the lesser sort that raid The mouths of others for their stock-in-trade : Assemble, first, all casual bits and scraps That may shake...
Page 99 - Past reason hunted; and no sooner had, Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait, On purpose laid to make the taker mad: Mad in pursuit, and in possession so; Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe; Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
Page 193 - O sages standing in God's holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall, Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, And be the singing-masters of my soul. Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is; and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.
Page 144 - Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 170 - Goddess is so far hardly more than a word of hope whispered among the few who have served their apprenticeship to the White Goddess. She promises a new pacific bond between men and women corresponding to a final reality of love in which the patriarchal marriage bond will fade away. Unlike Vesta, the Black Goddess has experienced good and evil, love and hate, truth and falsehood in the person of her sisters; rejecting serpent-love and corpse flesh.