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| No, no! my chicken, I shall scrawl / Just what I fancy as I strike it, / Fairies and Fusiliers, and all / Old broken knock-kneed thought will crawl / Across my verse in the classic way. |
| —To an Ungentle Critic |
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| Robert Graves |
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| 1895–1985, English poet, novelist, and critic. He established his reputation with Good-bye to All That (1929), an outspoken book on his war experiences. A versatile and highly prolific writer, Graves considered himself primarily a poet; his poems were characterized by gracefulness and lucidity. However, Graves was best known for his unorthodox novels of Roman history, I, Claudius (1934) and Claudius the God (1934), as well as fictionalized reappraisals of history and legend such as King Jesus (1946) and Homer’s Daughter (1955).—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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Pronunciation:  gr vz from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
- Fairies and Fusiliers
Much of Grave’s poetry focuses on his experiences in World War I—as evidenced in this collection of forty-six poems.
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- Graves, Robert, 25807 to 25861
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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