03505nam 2200697 a 450 991077751210332120230607221906.00-292-79639-010.7560/743434(CKB)1000000000461899(OCoLC)70183007(CaPaEBR)ebrary10194805(SSID)ssj0000142397(PQKBManifestationID)11161127(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000142397(PQKBWorkID)10096620(PQKB)11514878(MiAaPQ)EBC3443127(MdBmJHUP)muse1995(Au-PeEL)EBL3443127(CaPaEBR)ebr10194805(DE-B1597)588324(DE-B1597)9780292796393(EXLCZ)99100000000046189920010824d2002 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe early poetry of Robert Graves[electronic resource] the goddess beckons /Frank L. Kersnowski1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20021 online resource (193 p.) Literary modernism seriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-74343-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-169) and index.Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1 THE LUNATIC, THE LOVER, AND THE POET CHAPTER 2 THE LUNATIC: WAR CHAPTER 3 THE LUNATIC: AFTER THE WAR CHAPTER 4 THE LOVER IN THE NURSERY CHAPTER 5 THE LOVER CHAPTER 6 THE POET.Like many men of his generation, poet Robert Graves was indelibly marked by his experience of trench warfare in World War I. The horrific battles in which he fought and his guilt over surviving when so many perished left Graves shell-shocked and disoriented, desperately seeking a way to bridge the rupture between his conventional upbringing and the uncertainties of postwar British society. In this study of Graves's early poetry, Frank Kersnowski explores how his war neurosis opened a door into the unconscious for Graves and led him to reject the essential components of the Western idea of reality-reason and predictability. In particular, Kersnowski traces the emergence in Graves's early poems of a figure he later called "The White Goddess," a being at once terrifying and glorious, who sustains life and inspires poetry. Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven by the purpose of celebrating and explaining this deity and her matriarchy.Literary modernism series.Authors, English20th centuryBiographyWorld War, 1914-1918VeteransBiographyModernism (Literature)Great BritainSoldiersGreat BritainBiographyWar neurosesPatientsBiographyAuthors, EnglishWorld War, 1914-1918VeteransModernism (Literature)SoldiersWar neurosesPatients821/.912BKersnowski Frank L.1934-1467501MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777512103321The early poetry of Robert Graves3678170UNINA