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Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929) de Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929)

Autor Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 aug 2018

Un ofițer tânăr zace pe câmpul de luptă de la Somme, lăsat să moară printre victimele unei confruntări apocaliptice. Aceasta nu este doar o scenă de război, ci momentul de ruptură care va defini întreaga existență a lui Robert Graves. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson alege să deschidă această biografie monumentală, ancorând-o în autoritatea sa incontestabilă de expertă a poeziei de tranșee. Având în palmares portrete esențiale pentru Edward Thomas: From Adlestrop to Arras sau Siegfried Sassoon, Wilson este singura cercetătoare capabilă să descifreze de ce Graves a ales să-și suprime aproape toată poezia scrisă sub focul armelor, preferând să fie cunoscut prin proza sa ulterioară.

Apreciem profunzimea cu care autoarea analizează acest paradox literar. Narativul amintește de Goodbye to All That prin intensitatea cu care reconstituie o epocă a deziluziei, însă Wilson merge dincolo de mitul personal creat de Graves. Structura cărții este riguros cronologică, începând cu educația victoriană rigidă de la Charterhouse și continuând cu experiența „gropilor morții” din 1915-1916. Capitolele dedicate relației cu Siegfried Sassoon și influenței psihologiei asupra scrierilor sale de după război oferă o perspectivă nouă asupra traumei. Subliniem modul în care sunt integrate cele două secțiuni de ilustrații alb-negru, care oferă chipuri și locuri unei istorii marcate de violență și pasiune, culminând cu saltul dramatic de la fereastră alături de Laura Riding.

Această biografie nu doar completează istoria literară, ci o corectează, oferind poeziilor abandonate locul cuvenit lângă operele unor contemporani precum Wilfred Owen. Este un portret nuanțat al unui om care, pentru a supraviețui, a trebuit să spună un „rămas bun” definitiv propriei țări și trecutului său.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472929143
ISBN-10: 1472929144
Pagini: 480
Ilustrații: 2 x black and white 8-page plate sections
Dimensiuni: 162 x 236 x 42 mm
Greutate: 0.88 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această biografie cititorilor pasionați de istorie literară și de impactul psihologic al Marelui Război. Veți descoperi nu doar procesul creativ din spatele unui autor clasic, ci și fapte inedite despre suprimarea propriilor opere. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum trauma frontului a modelat modernismul britanic, oferind o perspectivă mult mai intimă și documentată decât memoriile standard de război.

Descriere

Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That casts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War poetry is incomplete.

The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he had published during and just after the First World War. Until his son, William Graves, reprinted almost all the Poems About War in 1988, Graves's status as a 'war poet' seems to have depended mainly on his prose memoir (and bestseller), Good-bye to All That. None of the previous biographies written on Graves, however excellent, attempt to deal with this paradox in any depth. Robert Graves the war poet and the suppressed poems themselves have been largely neglected - until now.

Jean Moorcroft Wilson, celebrated biographer of poets Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas, relates Graves's fascinating life during this period, his experiences in the war, his being left for dead at the Battle of the Somme, his leap from a third-storey window after his lover Laura Riding's even more dramatic jump from the fourth storey, his move to Spain and his final 'goodbye' to 'all that'.

In this deeply-researched new book, containing startling material never before brought to light, Dr Moorcroft Wilson traces not only Graves's compelling life, but also the development of his poetry during the First World War, his thinking about the conflict and his shifting attitude towards it.

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List of Illustrations

Introduction
1 'A Mixed Letter'
2 Victorian Beginnings and an Edwardian Education (1895-1909)
3 Charterhouse: 'the Public School Spirit' (1909-12)
4 Charterhouse: Of Cherry-Whiskey and Other Matters (1912-14)
5 'On Finding Myself a Solider' (August 1914-May 1915)
6 'These Soul-Deadening Trenches' (May-July 1915)
7 The Battle of Loos (August-October 1915)
8 Siegfried Sassoon and a Recipe for Rum Punch (October 1915-March 1916)
9 The Road to High Wood (March-July 1916)
10 The Survivor (July 1916-February 1917)
11 A Change of Direction (March-June 1917)
12 A Protest, Craiglockhart and 'A Capable Farmer's Boy' (June-July 1917)
13 The Fairy and the Fusilier (October 1917-January 1918)
14 Babes in the Wood (January 1918-January 1919)
15 A Poet on Parnassus (January-October 1919)
16 Oxford and 'Pier-Glass Hauntings' (October 1919-March 1921)
17 'Roots Down into a Cabbage Patch' (1921-5)
18 From Psychology to Philosophy and Beyond
19 Into the Unknown: Cairo and Laura Riding (January-June 1926)
20 The World Well Lost (June 1926-April 1927)
21 'Free Love Corner' (May 1927-October 1928)
22 'Like the Plot of a Russian Novel' (February-April 1929)
23 'A Doom-Echoing Shout' (26 April-June 1929)
24 Good-bye to All That (June-November 1929)

Abbreviations
Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index

Recenzii

Commanding ... To encounter [Graves] in these pages is to feel something of the relentlessly explosive energy with which he lived the first half of his life. Wilson lands him like a Zeppelin bomb.
Jean Moorcroft Wilson has built an unassailable reputation as our leading authority on the poets of the Great War ... Combining intelligent and perceptive criticism of his work, with revealing insights into the man, this study of the devastating impact of the conflict on Graves makes for compelling reading. I cannot recommend it too highly
Diligent and insightful ... Jean Moorcroft Wilson teases the truth from Graves's exaggerations, mis-rememberings and downright gibs ... She is by turns compassionate and caustic and is clear sighted . [Her] close reading of the war poems is illuminating.
Wilson unveils the poet behind the man struggling to make, not write, poetry [and] clarifies our understanding of what Graves was about
Consistently illuminating
A sensitive rendering of the poet's formative years ... finely nuanced
A fine attempt to give Graves his due in the context of the Great War
This is an exemplary biography and a terrific entertainment . Wilson brings this difficult, unlovable but strangely impressive man yelpingly to life
Readable and absorbing
Deft and commanding ... On a par with her other outstanding biographies
25 years after the last biography, a fresh approach . Measured and dispassionate . This is biography at its best
A sensitive rendering of the poet's formative years . A sympathetic perspective on Graves' eventful life.
A well-researched, readable biography
Anyone reading this book will come away with a fresh, and deeper, understanding of Graves and his writing - even if they have read previous biographies [.] There is no doubt that in many ways Jean Moorcroft Wilson has outdone her predecessors.