Robert's Life
“Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles: which has sometime won me the reputation of an eccentric.”
(The White Goddess)
Born in 1895; Anglo-Irish father, German mother. Soldier-poet in WWI with his friends Sassoon and Owen. After an unsuccessful first marriage and four children he wrote Good-bye to All That and retired to Majorca with poet Laura Riding (1929). There he wrote his best selling I, Claudius (1934). Rarely covering the same subject twice, his novel The Golden Fleece led him to his ground breaking thesis on ancient religions The White Goddess (1948) and on to his Greek Myths. He was a biblical scholar, biographer, translator, but above all a poet. He published over 1200 poems. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford (1961), and was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Poetry (1968). He is buried in Deià, Majorca.

Image Galleries
Photos, paintings, etc.
First Edition book Covers.

Video & Audio
Interviews,
TV & Film.

Poem of the week
a selection of his
best.

Letter of the week
O’Prey’s published
Selected Letters

Robert Graves
Society

The Foundation

The Robert Graves Review

Online Resources
Location of documents,
Texts of letters
Quotes, sayings and loose verses

Books by Robert Graves
and Biographies
Find novels and poems by Robert Graves or biographies from various publishing houses.