![]() ![]() ![]() He is well known for his famous series, Claudius. By the year 1917, he had written a 2-volume fiction autobiography of a Roman emperor, which was broadcasted by BBC. While still recovering, he was able to publish his 1st collection poetry novels, Over Brazier. Robert Graves got injured while fighting the Battle of Loos, in the year 1916. He was later enlisted as one of the junior officers in Royal Welch Fusiliers, in August 1914. In 1913, Robert Graves got a scholarship to further his studies in Oxford, at St. However, his love for poetry, eventually sustained him throughout the adolescence period. As many young men, he was just greatly interested in mountain climbing and boxing rather than studying. Robert was the 10th kid in the family and he was influenced greatly by the puritanical beliefs of his mother as well as the love of Celtic poetry and myth by his dad. His mother was Amalie von Ranke and she was closely related to Leopold von Ranke one of the founder fathers of the recent and modern historical studies. His father, Alfred Perceval Graves was a minor Irish poet and a Gaelic scholar. Some Speculations on Literature, History and Religion The Use and Abuse of the English Languageĭear Robert, Dear Spike (With: Spike Milligan) ![]() ![]() Selected Letters: Between Moon and Moon, 1946-72 v. Seven Days in New Crete / Watch the North Wind Rise ![]()
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