The Robert Graves Society promotes interest in the finest poets writing in English, whose Graves’s niece. The Honorary Vice-President is and research on the life and work of Robert influence has been far-reaching and profound: in Professor John Kelly, of St John’s College, Oxford Graves (1895–1985), poet, classical scholar, 1962 W.H. Auden called him ‘England’s greatest novelist, and critic, who was one of the greatest living poet’. He was also a war poet: in 1985 he The Society’s membership of experts and writers of the twentieth century. He was author of was one of only 16 poets commemorated in a interested lay people forms the core of an some 140 books of poetry, fiction, biography, memorial in Westminster Abbey to the Great War international research community which includes criticism, anthropology, social history, mythology, poets, and was the only one of them still alive at literary scholars, historians, classicists, biblical studies, translation and children's books. that time. Love poet, war poet, novelist, archaeologists, biblical scholars, bibliographers, He is perhaps best known for his early mythographer – Graves lived many lives in one editors, writers and translators, and general autobiography and account of the First World War lifetime. A prolific letter writer, he corresponded readers of Graves’s published works. Goodbye to All That (1929), the novels I, Claudius with many of the other leading figures of the and Claudius the God (1934–35), his complex twentieth century. As a public figure, his The Robert Graves Society holds biennial study of poetry and mythology The White controversial views on literature, politics and conferences on aspects of Robert Graves’s life and Goddess (1948), and The Greek Myths (1955). religion always generated lively debate. work. The conferences are held alternately in Mallorca in co-operation with the Fundació Robert Robert Graves was born in Wimbledon, South- Robert Graves died in Mallorca on 7 December Graves and University of the Balearic Islands, and West London. His father, Alfred Perceval Graves, 1985, aged 90, and is buried overlooking the at St John’s College, Oxford, home of the St was a school inspector and writer involved in the Mediterranean in the hilltop churchyard at Deià, John’s College Robert Graves Trust. The Society Irish Literary Revival; his mother, Amalie von the Mallorcan village he had made his home. also organises other events such as joint Ranke, was a great-niece of the conferences with other institutions, one day German historian Leopold von symposia, and lunches. Ranke (1795–1866). Graves was educated at Charterhouse, and Gravesiana, the Journal of the Robert Graves earned a B.Litt. at St John's Society, is a peer-reviewed journal which is College, Oxford, after his return dedicated to making available scholarly articles from the First World War, in which concerning Robert Graves and members of his he served alongside Siegfried circle. The journal also contains reviews of the Sassoon. In 1929 he moved to Mallorca with the latest studies about Graves or related publications. American poet Laura Riding. Forced out by the For further information see: Spanish Civil War and Second World War, he The Robert Graves Society was launched in 1995 www.robertgraves.org returned to Mallorca in 1946 with his second wife to mark Robert Graves’s Centenary. The first Beryl. President of the Society was Professor Patrick Twenty-five years after his death, interest in Quinn. Professor Dunstan Ward was President Graves’s life and work continues to increase. His Graves wrote in The White Goddess that ‘poetry 2000–2010, and Dr Fran Brearton was elected library and papers were bequeathed to St John’s has been my ruling passion’ but that ‘prose has President in July 2010. The first Honorary College, Oxford; his Complete Poems appeared as been my livelihood’. His first volume of poems President of the Society was Beryl Graves. She a Penguin Classic in 2003; and his home Ca appeared in 1916; in the five decades that was succeeded by the eminent political scientist n’Alluny (La Casa de Robert Graves) has been followed he consolidated his reputation as one of and anthropologist Sally Chilver, who is Robert opened to the public. JOINING THE SOCIETY: RATES (DUES) REGISTRATION FORM Annual or life membership subscriptions are payable as below. Annual subscriptions run from 6 Title__________________________________ April each year. 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