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English
Penguin Classics
24 April 2003
'The supreme poet of love in Twentieth-century English verse' The Guardian.

Graves described poetry as his ruling passion, and for him love was 'the main theme and origin of true poems'. He created a rich mythology where love, fear, fantasy and the supernatural play an essential role. Intimate yet universal, passionate yet precise, their brilliant alchemy of realism and magic made Graves's poems some of the finest of the last century. In this edition the poems appear without critical apparatus or commentary. The volume represents in its purest form the achievement of Graves's seventy productive years.
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Volume editor:   ,
Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   774
Dimensions:   Height: 199mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 39mm
Weight:   633g
ISBN:   9780141182063
ISBN 10:   0141182067
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   944
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929.

Reviews for The Complete Poems

[A] valuable new edition and translation which merits considerable use. J. G. H. Hudson, Reviews in History


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