1. FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD (1895-1909)
Robert Graves —his full name was Robert von Ranke Graves— was born in Wimbledon, London, on July ...
2. SCHOOLING (1909-1914)
Robert attended various preparatory schools, and from the last of these, Copthorne, he won a scholarship ...
3. WAR (1914-1918)
Robert Graves had just left Charterhouse and joined his family in Wales, when England declared war on ...
4. FIRST FAMILY (1918-1926)
Robert met seventeen-year-old Nancy Nicholson, in May 1916 when on leave. She was the daughter of the ...
5. THE TRINITY (1926-1929)
Despite the fact that he was well connected with the literary establishment of the time, both in London ...
6. ARRIVAL IN DEIÀ (1929-1936)
When Graves and Riding left England in October 1929, they visited their friend Gertrude Stein in France ...
7. EXILE (1936-1939)
On August 2nd 1935, after two weeks of uncertainly about the seriousness of the Franco uprising, the ...
8. SECOND FAMILY (1939-1946)
Back in England after the break-up with Laura, Graves was close to a nervous breakdown. But then Beryl, ...
9. RETURN TO DEIÀ (1946-1954)
In May 1946, after having obtained visas to travel to Spain, Graves took his new family to Majorca. The ...
10. INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION (1954-1968)
The White Goddess had provided Graves with a coherent framework for his particular views on poetry and ...
11. LAST YEARS (1968-1985)
Graves refused most honours and Honoris Causa doctorates, but he did accept the Gold Medal for Poetry ...