John Crowe Ransom Robert Graves Correspondence Collection
Scope and Content Note
Dates
- 1922-1971
Language of Materials
Biographical Notes
Robert Graves poet, novelist, and scholar was born July 24, 1895 in Wimbledon, Surrey, England. He was educated at Charterhouse School and was offered a scholarship at St. John’s College at Oxford, which he declined and soon after joined the the Royal Welch Fusiliers to fight in the first World War. During that time he befriended and defended fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon. Graves was seriously injured at the Battle of the Somme(1916) and presumed dead. He recovered and went on to have a long life and literary career, publishing poetry and novels and works of scholarship. He was married twice (to Nancy Nicholson and Beryl Hodge ) and had eight children, and some of his personal life was unorthodox, including his relationship with Fugitive poet Laura Riding. Together they published with their Seizin Press two important academic books: A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927) and A Pamphlet against Anthologies (1928). Graves also published several books which remain highly regarded: I Claudius (1934); The White Goddess(1948); and The Greek Myths (1955) among others.. Graves always considered himself a poet first and foremost. He died on December 7, 1985 at the age of ninety, and is buried in Majorca beside his wife Beryl in a small churchyard overlooking the sea. The correspondence in this collection is from John Crowe Ransom to Robert Graves with accompanying poems and newspaper reviews.
Extent
2.50 Linear Feet
Physical Location
- Title
- Finding Aid for the John Crowe Ransom Robert Graves Correspondence Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Vanderbilt University Special Collections Repository
Jean and Alexander Heard Library
419 21st Avenue South
Nashville TN 37203 United States
specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu