Robert graves introduction
Robert graves: war poems...
Robert graves most famous poem
...a small cottage from the poet John Masefield outside the town, in Boar s Hill. To supplement their small income, Graves s army pension and the government grant for his university studies, Nancy opened a village shop, but it proved to be a failure.
On this, and on other occasions, the young couple received financial help from their families and from close friends such as Sassoon, Edward Marsh and T.E. Lawrence. Robert first met Lawrence, who was a Fellow of All Souls , in March 1920, and they became firm friends.
During this time Robert, with his father-in-law William Nicholson, edited a magazine called The Owl, a miscellany which received contributions from well-known writers, poets and painters of the day.
Robert continued to write and publish poetry, but the war-poetry boom was over and Georgian poetry on the decline. His persistent war-neurosis and his desperate struggle to rebuild his life after the horror of the war became the moving force behind his poetry of that time.
