biography
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Graves, Robert (Ranke)
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| (1895–1985)
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| biography:
| Poet and novelist, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, served in the trenches in World War 1, became professor of English at Cairo, and after 1929 lived mainly in Majorca. His best-known novels are I, Claudius (Hawthornden and James Tait Black prizes) and its sequel, Claudius the God (both 1934), which were adapted for television in 1976. He wrote several autobiographical works, notably Goodbye to All That (1929), expressing the disillusion of the post-war generation, and Occupation Writer (1950), published critical essays, carried out Greek and Latin translations, and was professor of poetry at Oxford (1961–6). His Collected Poems (1975) draws on more than 20 volumes and confirms his status as a major poet of the 20th-c. |
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