Robert Graves : from Great War poet to Good-bye to all that (1895-1929)

9781472929143
1472929144

xiv, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-441) and index

'A mixed litter'
Victorian beginnings and an Edwardian education (1895-1909)
Charterhouse: 'the public school spirit' (1909-12)
Charterhouse: of cherry-whisky and other matters (1912-14)
'On finding myself a soldier' (August 1914-May 1915)
'These soul-deadening trenches' (May-July 1915)
The battle of Loos (August-October 1915)
Siegfried Sassoon and a recipe for rum punch (October 1915-March 1916)
The road to High Wood (March-July 1916)
The survivor (July 1916-February 1917)
A change of direction (March-June 1917)
A protest, Craiglockhart and 'a capable farmer's boy' (June-July 1917)
The fairy and the fusilier (October 1917-January 1918)
Babes in the wood (January 1918-January 1919)
A poet on Parnassus (January-October 1919)
Oxford and 'pier-glass hauntings' (October 1919-March 1921)
'Roots down into a cabbage patch' (1921-5)
From psychology to philosophy and beyond
Into the unknown: Cairo and Laura Riding (January-June 1926)
The world well lost (June 1926-April 1927)
'Free love corner' (May 1927- October 1928)
'Like the plot of a Russian novel' (February-April 1929)
'A doom-echoing shout' (26 April-June 1929)
Good-bye to all that (June-November 1929)

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