The Essay - Robert Graves and the Poetic Myth
Graeme Fife on love and the use of ancient myth in the poetry of Robert Graves
The Essay - Robert Graves and the Poetic Myth - Episode 1
Graeme Fife explores the work of Robert Graves and examines the role of love, war and the imagination of childhood in Graves's poetry.
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The Essay - Robert Graves and the Poetic Myth - Episode 2
Graeme Fife explores Graves's use of myth in understanding and reflecting the wider world.
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The Essay - Robert Graves and the Poetic Myth - Episode 3
Graeme recalls his visits to Graves's home in Mallorca and considers the role in his life of the poet Laura Riding, with whom he had a romantic and professional association.
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The Essay - Robert Graves and the Poetic Myth - Episode 4
Graeme considers the part sexual love, sexless poetic love and marital love all played in Graves's later work.
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