LEADER 03505nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910777512103321 005 20230607221906.0 010 $a0-292-79639-0 024 7 $a10.7560/743434 035 $a(CKB)1000000000461899 035 $a(OCoLC)70183007 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10194805 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000142397 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11161127 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000142397 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10096620 035 $a(PQKB)11514878 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443127 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse1995 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443127 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10194805 035 $a(DE-B1597)588324 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292796393 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000461899 100 $a20010824d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe early poetry of Robert Graves$b[electronic resource] $ethe goddess beckons /$fFrank L. Kersnowski 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 225 1 $aLiterary modernism series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-74343-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 165-169) and index. 327 $aMachine 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. 330 $aLike many men of his generation, poet Robert Graves was indelibly marked by his experience of trench warfare in World War I. The horrific battles in which he fought and his guilt over surviving when so many perished left Graves shell-shocked and disoriented, desperately seeking a way to bridge the rupture between his conventional upbringing and the uncertainties of postwar British society. In this study of Graves's early poetry, Frank Kersnowski explores how his war neurosis opened a door into the unconscious for Graves and led him to reject the essential components of the Western idea of reality-reason and predictability. In particular, Kersnowski traces the emergence in Graves's early poems of a figure he later called "The White Goddess," a being at once terrifying and glorious, who sustains life and inspires poetry. Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven by the purpose of celebrating and explaining this deity and her matriarchy. 410 0$aLiterary modernism series. 606 $aAuthors, English$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xVeterans$vBiography 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zGreat Britain 606 $aSoldiers$zGreat Britain$vBiography 606 $aWar neuroses$xPatients$vBiography 615 0$aAuthors, English 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xVeterans 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aSoldiers 615 0$aWar neuroses$xPatients 676 $a821/.912 676 $aB 700 $aKersnowski$b Frank L.$f1934-$01467501 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777512103321 996 $aThe early poetry of Robert Graves$93678170 997 $aUNINA