Robert Graves produced more than 140 works in his lifetime. His poems, his translations and innovative analysis of the Greek myths , his memoir of his early life—including his role in World War I — Good-Bye to All That (1929), and his speculative study of poetic inspiration The White Goddess have never been out of print. [ 3 ]

Graves is one of the foremost English poets of the twentieth century. His feelings about the First World War were complex and ambiguous, and his writings reflect this.

On 20 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme – four days before his twenty-first birthday – Graves was struck by a shell fragment, a piece of which passed through his shoulder and chest, seriously injuring his right lung. He was taken to a dressing-station, and next morning was reported to have died.

His last memory of the school before he left to join up in the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1914 was his headmaster saying ‘Well, good-bye, Graves, and remember this, that your best friend is the waste-paper basket.’.

Robert Graves was so badly wounded during the Battle of the Somme that his family was told he was dead. In his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, he wrote one of the most enduring memoirs of the First World War and the Somme in particular.

From 1961 to 1965 Graves was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and in 1971 he was made an honorary fellow of St John’s College. Robert Graves died at the age of 90, and is buried at Deià in the small cemetery overlooking the sea.

Robert Graves was a British writer who enlisted in August 1914. He fought at the Battle of Loos in 1915, and was wounded at the Somme in 1916. He published his first volumes of poems during the war, and his bestselling war memoir, Goodbye to All That, in 1929.

Robert Graves was a British writer who enlisted in August 1914. He fought at the Battle of Loos in 1915, and was wounded at the Somme in 1916. He published his first volumes of poems during the war, and his bestselling war memoir, Goodbye to All That, in 1929.

Married twice, to first Nancy Nicholson and then Beryl Pritchard, Robert Graves died in Deja, Majorca, on 7 December 1985. Feature: Robert Graves: A Twentieth Century Life. Around one million Indian troops served in WW1, of which some 100,000 were either killed or wounded. - …

Robert Graves is regarded as one of the foremost poets of World War One, and is considered to have been one of the few poets - alongside Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brookes - who was able to put on paper the horrors of trench warfare.