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Jean Moorcroft Wilson is a celebrated biographer and leading expert on the First World War poets. Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper biography prize for her Isaac Rosenberg, she has also written biographies of Siegfried Sassoon, Charles Hamilton Sorley and Edward Thomas. She has lectured for many years at the University of London, as well as in the United States and South Africa.
Commanding ... To encounter [Graves] in these pages is to feel something of the relentlessly explosive energy with which he lived the first half of his life. Wilson lands him like a Zeppelin bomb. * Observer * This study of the devastating impact of the conflict on Graves makes for compelling reading. I cannot recommend it too highly. -- Nigel Jones * author of Rupert Brooke: Life, Death & Myth * Diligent and insightful. * The Times * Wilson unveils the poet behind the man struggling to make, not write, poetry [and] clarifies our understanding of what Graves was about. * Literary Review * Consistently illuminating. -- Andrew Motion * Spectator * A sensitive rendering of the poet’s formative years ... finely nuanced. * Kirkus Reviews * A fine attempt to give Graves his due in the context of the Great War. * Evening Standard * This is an exemplary biography and a terrific entertainment … Wilson brings this difficult, unlovable but strangely impressive man yelpingly to life. * Sunday Times * Readable and absorbing. * TLS * Deft and commanding ... On a par with her other outstanding biographies. * BBC History Magazine * Measured and dispassionate … This is biography at its best. * Country Life * A well-researched, readable biography. * Library Journal * Anyone reading this book will come away with a fresh, and deeper, understanding of Graves and his writing – even if they have read previous biographies […] There is no doubt that in many ways Jean Moorcroft Wilson has outdone her predecessors. * PN Review *
