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Though he lived most of his life in the remote village of Deya on the island of Mallorca, Robert Graves (1895--1985) was conversant with the most important issues of this century and was acquainted with many of the most powerful people. Jorge Luis Borges called him "a soul above." Graves wrote almost restlessly on subjects of great diversity: myths of the Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, and Celts; modern science and economics; contemporary society and culture as well as of ancient Greece and Rome, of Celtic Wales and Ireland, of the time of Milton, and of the American Revolution.pHe was a poet of great fame, a celebrated writer of historical novels, and the man who imprinted the name and identity of the White Goddess upon the cultural language. His translations of Latin classics have been applauded; his recastings of Biblical and Persian texts attracted irascible attention from scholars.pThroughout his long and productive life, whether he was talking with Virginia Woolf, Peter Quenell, Jo

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Conversations with Robert Graves
• Author: Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277
• EAN: 9780878054145
• ISBN: 9780878054145
• ID: 07417298
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Weight: 310 g
• Dimensions: 152 × 228 × 18 mm

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