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Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves, an autobiographical work which spans the period from his childhood to his decision to leave England for good in the 1920s. In particular, it vividly depicts his experiences as an officer during the First World War, during which he witnessed the horrors of trench warfare at first hand and forged close friendships with his fellow soldier-poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Robert Graves was an English poet, novelist and critic. As well as
Goodbye to All That, he is known for his novels
I, Claudius and
Claudius the God, which are now regarded as classic works of historical fiction.
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ROBERT GRAVES
ENGLISH WRITER
Born in Wimbledon in 1895.Died in Deyá (Majorca) in 1985.Notable works:I, Claudius (1934), novelThe White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (1948), poetic mythologyThe Complete Poems (2003), poetryBorn in 1895 into an upper-class family that was both literary and religious, Robert Graves had a privileged background. He went to public school and became an officer in the First World War. The poetry he wrote about his experiences on the battlefront is disturbing and realistic. His beautiful and moving love poems came later, inspired first by his second wife Beryl Hodge, then, when he was older, by his muses, real women whom he saw as incarnations of the White Goddess (Graves believed that in ancient times matriarchal cultures worshipped a female divinity he called the White Goddess, and that this Goddess reappeared in the forms of certain women for the purpose of inspiring poetry). Between 1916 and 1975, he produced 55 poetry collections and in all wrote more than 120 books, including 15 novels and 40 works of non-fiction. Between 1961 and 1966, he was Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. In 1976, his novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God were made into a major BBC television series. He spent most of his life after 1929 on the island of Majorca, first with his then-partner Laura Riding, then with Beryl, with whom he had four children.
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Genre: autobiographyReference edition: Graves, R. (1957) Goodbye to All That. London: Penguin Books.1stedition: 1929Themes: war, poetry, friendship, love, pacificism, socialismGoodbye to All That is not only a personal account of Robert Graves’ life, written at the age of 33, but also a social and historical document. It tells us a great deal about the social circles in which a boy, then a man, of his class and background moved, and what was expected of him. Almost two thirds of the book are devoted to his experiences during the First World War, and we see how these experiences affected him and inspired his poetry. We learn of his friendships with other war poets, in particular Siegfried Sassoon. Finally, we see Graves in the years that followed the war, now married with a growing family, running a shop, studying at Oxford University and then working in Egypt as a university professor. Graves was friends with significant historical figures such as the climber George Mallory, who was lost on Mount Everest, and T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), whose biography he wrote in 1927.
SUMMARY
Goodbye to All That can effectively be divided into three parts: chapters 1-9 cover Graves’ earliest memories, childhood and school days up the outbreak of the First World War; chapters 10-25 his war service; and chapters 26-31 his postwar life up until 1926.
