Questions tagged [robert-graves]
Questions about the English poet, historical novelist and critic Robert Graves (1895 – 1985) and his works. As a novelist, he is best known for " I, Claudius" (1934).
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Did Lucan make an elementary blunder about the zodiac in “Pharsalia” book 3?
In book 3 of Lucan’s Pharsalia, enthusiasm for the civil war between Caesar and Pompey inflamed the whole world, including:
Ethiopians from that southern land
Which lies without the circuit of the ...
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What does the top of the bird-catcher's head look like?
In The New Yorker issue of 13 February 2013, Brad Leithauser discussed some of Robert Graves's love poems, including the quatrain "Love Without Hope". (I think the poem is still copyrighted, even ...
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