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Robert Graves

ロバート・グレイヴス

Robāto Gurēvusu

Aliases: Robert von Ranke Graves

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1895-07-24 （Wimbledon, Surrey, England）
Died
1985-12-07 （Deià, Mallorca, Spain） age 90
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Religion
Atheism
Residence History
Wimbledon, England → Oxford, England → Deià, Mallorca, Spain

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Poet, Critic, Soldier, Professor
Active Years
1914-1985
Affiliations
St John's College, Oxford
Influenced By
Siegfried Sassoon, T. E. Lawrence
Influenced
Wilfred Owen

Education

Charterhouse School
Classics
Period: 1909-1914
Year of Graduation: 1914
Country: UK
Scholarship won

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1934
Work: I, Claudius / Claudius the God
Organization: University of Edinburgh
Result: 受賞
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
1968
Organization: Royal
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

I, Claudius

1934 Historical novel

A historical novel about the life of Roman Emperor Claudius

PowerHistoryRoman Empire
Adaptations
  • [TV series] I, Claudius / Herbert Wise (1976)

Good-Bye to All That

1929 Memoir

Memoir of WWI experiences and post-war life

WarTraumaFriendship

The White Goddess

1948 Poetic mythology

Historical grammar of poetic myth

MythPoetryGoddess worship

Translations by Author

  • The Golden Ass
  • The Twelve Caesars

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Clear and entertaining styleInnovative classical translations
Recurring Motifs
White GoddessMythologyWar trauma

Health

  • Double pneumonia
    幼少期
    Near-death experience
  • Shell shock
    1916-1918
    Neurasthenia, long-term effects
  • Spanish flu
    1918
    Severe illness
  • Memory loss
    1970年代
    End of writing career

Legacy

Produced over 140 works; enduring influence as poet and novelist. Home in Deià now a museum

Museums

  • Casa Robert Graves Deià, Mallorca Opened in 1992

Archives

  • Robert Graves Digital Archive, Oxford

In Popular Culture

  • Famous via BBC's I, Claudius series

Quotes

  • My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
    Source: Preface to poems (1918)

Trivia

  • Authored over 140 works
  • Reported dead in WWI but survived
  • Shortlisted for Nobel Prize in Literature 1962