Robert Graves (1895-1985), poet, classical scholar, novelist, and critic, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century. Athough he produced over 100 books he is perhaps best known for the novel I, CLAUDIUS (1934),THE WHITE GODDESS (1948) and GREEK MYTHS (1955). Born in Wimbledon, south London, Graves was educated at Charterhouse, and awarded a B.Litt by St. John's College, Oxford after his return from World war I. He died in 1985 in Deja, the Majorcan village he had made his home (with the exception of the Spanish civil war and the Second World War) since 1929. Robert A. Davis is Head of Department of Religious Education in the University of Glasgow. He has taught and written widely on literature, myth and religion, including studies of Richard Wagner, Walter Benjamin and the figure of the Trickster. He has been Visiting Lecturer at a number of institutions, including universities in Copenhagen, Helsinki and Dublin. He was Vice President of the Robert Graves Society.
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King Jesus My Head! My Head!
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'No one else offers his precise combination of eroticism, nightmare and epigram.' - Sean O'Brien, The Guardian. 'While poetry schools came and went, Graves went on writing until his death in 1985, in an elegant, classically inspired style.' - Andrew Crumey, Scotland on Sunday.