In Broken Images: Selected Letters Of Robert Graves 1914-1946
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Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few literary figures of the twentieth century lived as boldly and wrote as brilliantly as Robert Graves, and In Broken Images: Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1914–1946 offers an unfiltered window into the mind of the poet, novelist, and mythographer across three of history's most turbulent decades. Curated by Paul O'Prey, this collection chronicles Graves's correspondence from the trenches of the First World War through to the aftermath of the Second, capturing his relationships with contemporaries such as Siegfried Sassoon, T.E. Lawrence, and Laura Riding, while charting his restless intellectual and emotional evolution. The letters reveal a man of fierce conviction and startling candour — by turns tender, combative, and searingly self-aware — illustrating the private forces that shaped celebrated works such as Goodbye to All That and The White Goddess. O'Prey's editorial hand is scholarly yet light, allowing Graves's voice to dominate, raw and unmediated. For admirers of Graves and students of modernist literature alike, this volume presents an intimate portrait of genius in correspondence that raises one persistent, tantalising question: what did Graves choose never to say?
Author: Paul O'Prey (Editor)
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Hutchinson
Genre: Anthology
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few literary figures of the twentieth century lived as boldly and wrote as brilliantly as Robert Graves, and In Broken Images: Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1914–1946 offers an unfiltered window into the mind of the poet, novelist, and mythographer across three of history's most turbulent decades. Curated by Paul O'Prey, this collection chronicles Graves's correspondence from the trenches of the First World War through to the aftermath of the Second, capturing his relationships with contemporaries such as Siegfried Sassoon, T.E. Lawrence, and Laura Riding, while charting his restless intellectual and emotional evolution. The letters reveal a man of fierce conviction and startling candour — by turns tender, combative, and searingly self-aware — illustrating the private forces that shaped celebrated works such as Goodbye to All That and The White Goddess. O'Prey's editorial hand is scholarly yet light, allowing Graves's voice to dominate, raw and unmediated. For admirers of Graves and students of modernist literature alike, this volume presents an intimate portrait of genius in correspondence that raises one persistent, tantalising question: what did Graves choose never to say?