The Early Poetry of Robert Graves: The Goddess Beckons

INDEX

170 I N D E X Abercrombie, Lascelles, 155 Abse, Dannie, 85 Aldington, Richard, 14, 135, 140–141 Allingham, William, 163–164 Apuleius, Lucius, 97, 163–164 Aristotle, xii, 25, 43, 80, 136, 139, 141, 143–144, 154 Auden, W. H., xi, 43, 89 Bartlett’s Book of Familiar Quotations, xi Battle of the Somme, 34–35, 40, 43, 134 Bell, Clive, 52 Ben-Gurion, David, 2 Bloomsbury, 10 bourgeoisie, 101 Bridges, Robert, 139–140, 152 Brooke, Rupert, 17–18, 19, 31, 81, 90, 101, 103–104, 118, 132, 137, 138– 139 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 121 Buchan, John, xii, 75, 152 Butler, Samuel, 131–132 Carroll, Lewis, 95–97 Charterhouse, 12–13, 14, 15, 83, 90, 133 Churchill, Winston, xii, 13, 85, 139, 140–141 Clemenceau, Georges, 101 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 17, 134, 135– 136, 146–147 Confessional School of Poets, 58 cummings, e. e., 162 Dalton, Catherine Nicholson (Robert Graves’s daughter), 4, 6–7, 19, 21, 59–60, 69, 109–110, 111, 141, 155 Davie, Donald, 105 Durrell, Lawrence, 7 Eliot, T. S., xi, 8, 9, 13–14, 43, 70, 84, 85, 101, 108, 141, 143, 150, 151, 154, 157 Fanchette, Jean, 25 Flint, F. S., 135 France, 72 Frazer, Sir James George, 7, 40, 132– 133, 150 Freud, Sigmund, 25, 62, 64, 84, 89, 92, 118, 148 Friedman, Bruno, 133 Frost, Robert, 60, 162 Fussell, Paul, 5–6, 68 Georgians, 8, 10, 13, 16–17, 19–20, 39, 48, 51, 80–81, 90, 95, 102, 117–118, 122, 130, 133, 136, 137, 138–140, 156, 159 Graves, Alfred Perceval (Robert Graves’s father), 15–16, 48, 73, 115, 121, 130, 131, 132, 160 Graves, Amy (Robert Graves’s mother), 21 Graves, Beryl Prichard Hodge (Robert Graves’s second wife), 6, 8, 59, 127, 150, 159–160, 164 Graves, Charles L. (Robert Graves’s uncle), 15–16, 121, 131–132 Graves, David (Robert Graves’s son from first marriage), 11 Graves, Juan (Robert Graves’s son from second marriage), 129 Graves, Lucia (Robert Graves’s daughter from second marriage), 129 Graves, Richard Perceval (Robert Graves’s nephew), 2, 5 Graves, Robert Ranke: and analepsis, 119, 149, 160; and the dream state, 26, 73, 116; in Egypt (Royal University of Cairo), 4, 9, 75, 127, 152; as an English writer, 9, 14, 16, 31, 69–70, 84–85, 90, 99, 101, 135–136, 138– 140, 163; and Greek myth, 42–43, 120, 121, 126–127, 162–163; and iconotrophy, 70, 85, 126–127; in Mallorca, xi, 4, 28, 33, 106–107, 160; marriage of, to Nancy Nicholson, xi, 1, 4, 8, 13, 21–22, 32, 35, 59, 72– 73, 102, 108–111, 124, 156; morphine , use of by, 41, 44, 46; and the muse, 6–7, 22, 23, 106, 115–116; and non-rational thought, 20, 24–26, 42, 46, 49; 56, 62, 63, 83, 89, 104, 116, 137–138, 139, 142, 143–146; and the occult, 71, 76–77, 122–123, 152–153, 164; and the power of woman, 5–6, 59, 71, 74, 77, 97, 103– 104, 106–108, 110, 116–117, 118– 121, 122, 127, 147–148, 151, 160; prudishness of, 13–14, 71, 101–102; psychology of, 18, 20–21, 23, 25, 40, 48–49, 55–56, 62, 64–65, 73–74, 96, 99, 108, 111, 119, 134, 141, 148, 149–150; and sound, 18, 32, 38, 41, 60, 62–66, 92, 93, 105, 106, 121, 143–144; war-neurosis of, xii, 7–8, i n d e x 171 10–11, 18–19, 28–29, 36, 45, 51, 61–62, 69–70, 72–73, 77–78, 86– 89, 99, 106–107, 109–110, 111, 122, 141–142, 146, 151–153, 156, 160; and the White Goddess, xi, xii, xiii, 5– 6, 13, 20–21, 22–23, 26–27, 48, 59, 61, 67, 77, 85, 90, 97, 100, 105–106, 110, 115, 130, 145–146, 147, 152– 153, 157, 160–161, 163–164; and World War II, 11 ——— works by (volumes): An Ancient Castle, 29; Another Future of Poetry, 4; But It Still Goes On, 159; Claudius The God, 122; Collected Poems (1938), 105; Collected Poems (1961), 1; Collected Poems (1975), 62; Contemporary Techniques of Poetry, 9, 154–156; Country Spirit, 4, 10, 22, 51, 61, 62, 67, 68, 72, 87–90, 102, 103, 107–108, 110, 149; Fairies and Fusiliers, 9, 22, 28, 43, 44, 63, 136; The Feather Bed, 8, 9, 84, 122–123, 148–149; The Golden Fleece, 26, 160; Goliath and...