About
Graves’ unhappy experience at the Charterhouse School began his interest in writing poetry. Immediately, at the declaration of the first World War, Graves enlisted himself and ended up in France in 1915. In 1916, Graves was struck with a shell, and while he survived the injury, The Times declared him dead (later to correct the mistake).
The war influenced Graves to write more and more poetry, and his volumes Over the Brazier (1916) and Fairies and Fusilliers (1917). In 1918, with the Armistice, Graves and his wife set up a grocery store, which soon failed, and his marriage ended the year that his autobiography, Goodbye to All That was published in 1929.
Graves also published a sequel to I, Claudius entitled Claudius the God (1935).
–Christie Finn
Related Information
Songs
A Last Song (op. 41, no. 1)
Samuel Barber
Robert Graves
Counting the Beats
John Woods Duke
Robert Graves
Death by Drums (op. 21, no. 3)
Lowell Liebermann
Robert Graves
Song Collection: Final Songs, op. 21
Despite and Still, Op. 41
Song CollectionSamuel Barber
Robert Graves
Theodore Roethke
James Joyce
Despite and Still (op. 41, no. 5)
Samuel Barber
Robert Graves
Song Collection: Despite and Still, Op. 41
Farewell Symphony (op. 21, no. 5)
Lowell Liebermann
Randall Jarrell
Song Collection: Final Songs, op. 21
In The Wilderness (op. 41, no. 3)
Samuel Barber
Robert Graves
Song Collection: Despite and Still, Op. 41
The leveller
Hugo Weisgall
Robert Graves
Song Collection: Soldier Songs
She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep (op. 22, no. 2)
Lowell Liebermann
Robert Graves
Song Collection: Night Songs, op. 22
Recordings
The New American Art Song
(Jake Heggie and Lowell Liebermann)
2001
Books
Sheet Music
Samuel Barber: Collected Songs
Composer(s): Samuel Barber
Song(s): 1. A Last Song (op. 41, no. 1)
2. My Lizard (Wish For a Young Love) (op. 41, no. 2)
3. In The Wilderness (op. 41, no. 3)
4. Solitary Hotel (op. 41, no. 4)
5. Despite and Still (op. 41, no. 5)