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The initial reason Robert Graves set out to write I, Claudius (1934) was for money. Living on the Spanish island of Mallorca with the poet Laura Riding, Graves fell into some financial difficulties, which he hoped to resolve through the writing of the historical epic. The book, the first of two fictionalized accounts of Claudius, the Roman emperor from 41 to 54 a.d. , was a great success. Within a couple months it had gone into...

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I, Claudius

6,769 words, approx. 23 pages

I, Claudius by Robert Graves Born in Wimbledon, England, in 1895, Robert Graves was the son of a schoolmaster who was also a poet and songwriter. Graves attended Charterhouse, a British public scho... Read more

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Robert Ranke Graves

1,124 words, approx. 4 pages

The English poet Robert Graves (1895-1985) was also a very productive novelist, mythographer, critic and historian, with over 130 books to his credit. He was once nominated for the Nobel Prize.Robert ... Read more

Robert Ranke Graves

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Biography EssayRobert Graves may well be remembered as the preeminent minor poet of the twentieth century. He would not be disturbed by the label. "Nothing," he said in his sixties in a lecture on the... Read more

Robert (von Ranke) Graves

16,776 words, approx. 56 pages

Robert Graves may well be remembered as the preeminent minor poet of the twentieth century. He would not be disturbed by the label. "Nothing," he said in his sixties in a lecture on the legitimate cri... Read more

Robert (von Ranke) Graves

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Robert Graves's reputation must rest chiefly on his poetry and historical fiction; as an essayist he is extremely uneven. His essays are generally polemical, frequently eccentric. As a literary critic... Read more

Robert (Von Ranke) Graves

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On his death in 1985 The Times of London wrote of Robert Graves: "He will be remembered for his achievements as a prose stylist, historical novelist and memoirist, but above all as the great paradigm ... Read more

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