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Robert von Ranke Graves was born in Wimbledon, England about a hundred years ago on July in 1895 and grew up in a protected middle-class environment. ... Following the war Graves spent a period teaching in Cairo. ...
In 1934, following the time in which Graves was teaching in Cairo, he settled in Majorca, continuing his writing career with such winning titles as I, Claudius and Claudius The God, plus both were later successfully dramatised by the BBC. ...
Robert Graves had published over 120 texts in his lifetime about a wide range of fields which included, historical fiction, mythology, poetry, and a classic account of the First World War in 1929 which was titled Good-bye To All That. ...
Graves was married twice, to first Nancy Nicholson and then Beryl Pritchard, Robert Graves died in Deja, Majorca, on 7 December 1985.
Robert Graves was born on July 24, 1895, in Wimbledon, near London. His father, Alfred Perceval Graves, was a Gaelic scholar and minor Irish poet. His mother, Amalie von Ranke Graves, was a relation of Leopold von Ranke, one of the founding fathers of modern historical studies. One of ten children, Robert was greatly influenced by his mothers beliefs and his fathers love of Celtic poetry and myth. ... In 1913 Graves won a scholarship to continue his studies at St. ... By 1917, though still an active serviceman, Graves had published three volumes. ... Over the Brazier and Fairies and Fusiliers earned for Graves the reputation as an accomplished war poet. ... "
In 1927, Graves and his first wife separated permanently, and in 1929 he published Goodbye to All That, an autobiography that announced his psychological accommodation with the residual horror of his war experiences. ... In addition to completing many books of verse while in Majorca, Graves also wrote several volumes of criticism, some in collaboration with Riding. ... Although Graves claimed that he wrote novels only to earn money, it was through these that he attained status as a major writer in 1934, with the publication of the historical novel I, Claudius, and its sequel, Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina. ... )
At the onset of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, Graves and Riding fled Majorca, eventually settling in America.
Approximate Word count = 1792
Approximate Pages = 7.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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