Old Gravy
Mark Ford, 7 September 1995
Robert Graves: Life on the Edge
by Miranda Seymour.
Doubleday, 524 pp., £20, July 1995,0 385 40423 9 Show More
by Miranda Seymour.
Doubleday, 524 pp., £20, July 1995,
Robert Graves and the White Goddess
by Richard Perceval Graves.
Weidenfeld, 618 pp., £25, July 1995,0 297 81534 2 Show More
by Richard Perceval Graves.
Weidenfeld, 618 pp., £25, July 1995,
Robert Graves: His Life and Work
by Martin Seymour-Smith.
Bloomsbury, 600 pp., £25, June 1995,0 7475 2205 7 Show More
by Martin Seymour-Smith.
Bloomsbury, 600 pp., £25, June 1995,
Robert Graves: Collected Writings on Poetry
edited by Paul O’Prey.
Carcanet, 560 pp., £35, June 1995,1 85754 172 3 Show More
edited by Paul O’Prey.
Carcanet, 560 pp., £35, June 1995,
Robert Graves: The Centenary Selected Poems
edited by Patrick Quinn.
Carcanet, 160 pp., £15.95, April 1995,9781857541267 Show More
edited by Patrick Quinn.
Carcanet, 160 pp., £15.95, April 1995,
“... in which he protests her superiority to mythical heroines of every stripe, from Andromeda to Helen. However crazy her behaviour, she proceeded always with absolute confidence, brooking neither argument nor delay. Though she caused havoc almost wherever she went, for Graves these conflicts were evidence of her ineffable, otherworldly ... ”