Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)

A selective list of open access literary criticism, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages


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General Articles

Hodgkin, Marian. "The physical and mental scars of World War One as portrayed in poems by W. Owen and R. Graves," at the Robert Graves Archive

Richman, Robert. "The poetry of Robert Graves" a review of Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic by Richard Perceval Graves and Collected Poems by Robert Graves. Reviewed in the New Criterion

Vidal, Gore. A review of "Robert Graves and the Twelve Caesars"

A biographical introduction to Robert Graves from the Books and Writers site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland.

A biography of Graves published in the journal Focus on Robert Graves and his Contemporaries, University of Maryland University College

Essays on authors of the WWI period, including Graves published in the journal Focus on Robert Graves and his Contemporaries, vol. II, 4. (Richard Schumaker), University of Maryland University College

The main page for the Robert Graves Archive which is thorough and useful although apparently no longer maintained and of unclear authorship

An unsympathetic essay on Graves published in the literary magazine Angel Dust

A page of quick, light reviews of six of Graves' novels by Danny Yee

A very brief introduction to Robert Graves from the Academy of American Poets


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