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RobertGraves(1895-1985)RobertGravesRobertGravesRobertGravesAccordingtoGraves,womenandpoetsarenaturalallies.Abstractreasoningisapredominantlymalefieldofthought,andrationalschoolingdiscouragesintuitivethought.
"Abstractreason,formerlytheservantofpracticalhumanreasons,haseverywherebecomeitsmaster,anddeniespoetryanyexcuseforexistence."
Reasonfailstopromptthewritingoforiginalpoems,andshowsnosparkofhumororreligiousfeeling.Philosophy,underthenameofabstractreasoning,isantipoetic.Inthe1940sGravesbecameinterestedinmythsandhistory.StudiesofgoddessloreledhimalsoreinterpretthegenealogyofJesus,andrewritetheGospels.InthehistoricalnovelKingJesus(1946)hepresentedJesusasasageandpoet,andrejectedthemysticalVirginBirthdoctrine.
From1961to1966GraveswasProfessorofPoetryattheUniversityofOxford-hewas66whenhedeliveredhisfirstlectureinthisoffice.
RobertGraves"SincetheageoffifteenpoetryhasbeenmyrulingpassionandIhaveneverintentionallyundertakenanytaskorformedanyrelationshipthatseemedinconsistentwithpoeticprinciples;whichhassometimeswonmethereputationofaneccentric."~RobertGraves(source)Idolization/worshipofwomenGraveslikedFrost,JohnCroweRansom,andE.E.Cummings(hisAmericandiscoveries);foundsomeredeemingqualitiesinEliotandDylanThomas;foundnoredeemingqualitiesinYeats,Pound,orAuden.
TheWhiteGoddessInthatperiod,thesea-tradingMinoanscarriedtheirreligionfromtheirportsintheMediterraneanasfarasIrelandinthewest;andtotropicalAsiaintheeast.Ofthegoddess-templesfounded,thehighestmayhavebeenthatofSapphoontheislandofLesbos.Thegoddess-templesareofgreatimportancetoscholars,fortheyarethesourceofthealphabetweuse;themusicalscalesweuse,oftheconceptofpoetry,ofthecalendar,ofastronomyandhistory,andofformalmathematicsandthesciences.Thisculturefellinacataclysminapproximately1600BC,butwasresumedbyAchaeans(proto-Greeks),andbyothercivilizationshonoringthenaturegoddess.Thetemple'sroleatthepinnacleofhumancultureandachievementlasteduntilthesecondcenturyannodomine,whenthehighpriestessofthetempleofIsiswasmurdered.Thefallofthetempl