A biographical film about the World War I veteran, poet and novelist Robert Graves (Tom Hughes), “The Laureate” begins after the war when “war poet” Robert, his artist and illustrator wife Nancy ...
It is bracing to be reminded by Jean Moorcroft Wilson’s new biography of Robert Graves that the rugged poet/all-rounder wrote Good-bye to All That, his lucid and mordantly sane autobiographical ...
It isn’t merely love that’s blind. The love poet, too, can be heard stumbling and blundering about, sightless and ecstatic, as another Valentine’s Day dawns. Robert Graves—these days, perhaps best ...
in a new translation with critical commentaries by Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah (Doubleday, $5.00) No work by Robert Graves can be ignored. Not even when he fails to improve on what someone else — ...
Focusing on literary-cultural production emerging from or responding to the twentieth century, broadly construed, Twentieth-Century Literature (TCL) offers essays, grounded in a variety of approaches, ...
With a title taken from a Robert Graves poem and a story that switches back and forth between worlds of wealth and comfort and a lovely Tuscan villa and the dreary lives of working folk in the ...
The drama about British poet and novelist Robert Graves also stars Tom Hughes, Dianna Agron and Laura Haddock. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief Kathy Bates has joined The Laureate, a drama about ...
He was also borderline absurd, a cut-price Lord Byron whose scandalous private life – in particular the Jazz Age ménage à trois with his wife Nancy Nicholson and a charismatic American literary critic ...
The conceit of this column is simple: I write about books I’m reading. New, old, obscure, overrated — whatever’s on the nightstand is fair game. So while most weeks are devoted to new releases or ...