Robert graves
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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. He was an English poet, novelist, critic and classical scholar.
Graves's early volumes of poetry, like those of his colleagues, deal with natural beauty and country pleasures, and with the consequences of the First World War. Over the Brazier and Fairies and Fusiliers earned him the reputation as an accomplished war poet
He had begun to write poetry at the same time as he was a student attending London's Charterhouse School. His interest in poetry continued throughout his life and most particularly during his wartime service, which in 1916 he was seriously wounded whilst serving with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Also during 1916 to 1917 alone he published three volumes of poetry.
During the war he had made lasting friendships with Nicholas, Owen and Sassoon who are other well-known war poets. Following the war Graves spent a period teaching in Cairo. Also following the war was the publication of his highly successful memoir which had caused a rift between him and Siegfried Sassoon.
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...