Robert Graves GOODBYE TO ALL THAT Folio Society 1999
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Robert Graves GOODBYE TO ALL THAT Folio Society 1999
Reissued edition, sixth printing slipcased hardback of GOODBYE TO ALL THAT by Robert Graves. Published by the Folio Society, London in 1999. First published by Jonathan Cape, 1929. Folio Society edition was first published in 1981. Reissued with modified binding 1996. Introduction by Raleigh Trevelyan.The book is in very good condition (Decorated with an illustration in black on green cloth boards and gilt lettering on the black label background on the spine. Printed in Balmoral Wove paper by The Bath Press and bound in full cloth). The original green slipcase is in very good condition with only minor shelf wear. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon, the son of Irish writer Perceval Graves and Amalia Von Ranke. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and became one of the finest poets to emerge from that conflict.
He always considered himself a poet first, but unable to support his family through poetry alone, he wrote novels, works of criticism and nonfiction. After the war, apart from a year as Professor of English Literature at Cairo University in 1926, he earned his living by writing, mostly historical novels, including: I, Claudius; Claudius the God; Count Belisarius; Wife of Mr Milton; Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth; Proceed, Sergeant Lamb; The Golden Fleece; They Hanged My Saintly Billy; and The Isles of Unwisdom.
He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929. The Times Literary Supplement acclaimed it as 'one of the most candid self portraits of a poet, warts and all, ever painted', as well as being of exceptional value as a war document.
Two of his most discussed non-fiction works are The White Goddess, which presents a new view of the poetic impulse, and The Nazarine Gospel Restored (with Joshua Podro), a re-examination of primitive Christianity.
He also translated Apuleius, Lucan and Suetonius, The Rub?iy?t of Omar Khayy?m (with Omar Ali-Shah), and compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek Mythology, The Greek Myths. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1961 and made an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, in 1971. He produced more than 140 works during his lifetime and has never been out of print.
Robert Graves died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929. On his death The Times wrote of him, 'He will be remembered for his achievements as a prose stylist, historical novelist and memorist, but above all as the great paradigm of the dedicated poet, 'the greatest love poet in English since Donne'.
Goodbye to All That is an autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy
"In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life.
It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, including Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy, and covers his increasingly unhappy marriage to Nancy Nicholson. Goodbye to All That, with its vivid, harrowing descriptions of the Western Front, is a classic war document, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written."
Book size: 8vo - over 6" x 9.5" tall. 295 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Maps on endpapers.
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