Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929)

'An exemplary biography' -- Sunday Times
'Commanding' – Observer
'Diligent and insightful' – The Times

This revelatory biography of Robert Graves re-examines his position as a major First World War poet, as well as a master prose writer.

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' depended mainly ...