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Reviews

Reviews Mission Statement

Scott Ashey

The forthcoming issues of Gravesiana will see a more focussed reviews section, concentrating on the following areas:

1.New publications specifically on, or by, Robert Graves and his immediate circle, for example, Laura Riding, Siegfried Sassoon, T.E. Lawrence, etc.

2.Cultural Histories of the First World War and its impact. If the publication is of exceptional interest more traditional military and political histories may also be considered.

3.General literary histories of the period in which Graves was an active presence, particularly from the 1920s to 1950s. These need not be solely those that discuss Graves in detail.

4.The work of Graves' contemporaries, including both important biographical studies and new editions or collections.

In addition to standard length reviews of individual books we also aim to include longer review articles, giving space for extended discussion of particularly important publications by recognised authorities.

Please note that Gravesiana always welcomes unsolicited reviews, however as a refereed journal, it cannot guarantee publication.

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To order any title from the Robert Graves Programme write to:

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Manchester M3 5BQ, UK

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In 1995, the centenary of the poet's birth, Carcanet launched The ROBERT GRAVES Programme which, over the next decade, will bring into print the bulk of Graves's writings in verse and prose in new editions with introductions by poets, scholars and other authorities. 22 volumes are currently projected.

General Editor Patrick Quinn

Professor of English at Nene University College Northampton, Patrick

Quinn is the author of a study of the writing of Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, The Great War and the Missing Muse (AUP, 1993) and the edited study of British writers of the 1930s entitled Recharting the

Thirties (AUP, 1996). He is the founding editor of Gravesiana: The Journal of the Robert Graves Society, a biennial journal dedicated to Graves studies.

1997 PUBLICATIONS

Complete Poems Volume Il edited by Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward

ISBN 1 85754 261 4384 PP€30.00 HB

In this second volume of the Complete Poems, all of Robert Graves's work from 1927 to 1942 - the Laura Riding Period, as series editor Patrick Quinn describes it in the Centenary Selected Poems - is included.

'The Cool Web', 'Flying Crooked', 'Down Wanton Down!' 'Never Such Love', 'Danegeld', 'Parent to Children' and other favourite anthology pieces date from this rich period in which Robert Graves makes the astonishing transition from his early work and becomes incontestably one of the great lyric poets in our literature.

The White Goddess - an historical grammar ofpoetic myth

edited with an introduction and additional material by Grevel Lindop

ISBN 1 85754 248 7512 PP€35.00 HB

First published in 1948, The White Goddess is one of the century's most extraordinary books. A poet's impassioned introduction to the world of poetry, it is also a great scholar's quest for the meaning of European mythology, a polemic about the relations between man and woman, and an intensely personal document. It stands beside Yeats's A Vision as a major work of modern myth-making, and the clarifications it wrought in Graves's own mind made possible the writing of some of his finest poems.

This new edition incorporates major corrections to the text, including for the first time all Robert Graves's final revisions, as well as his replies to the book's reviewers and his own account of the months of inspiration in which The White Goddess was written.

1999 PUBLICATIONS Complete Poems Volume 111 edited by Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward ISBN 1 85754 2800 352 PP €30.00 HB After Laura Riding had parted company with him in 1942, Robert Graves moved into a new and decisive phase in his work, producing the White Goddess and Black Goddess poems. ms final volume of the Complete Poems brings together the last three decades of the poet's work including many previously uncollected poems.

I, Claudius and Claudius the God edited with an introduction by Richard Francis ISBN 1 85754 279 7 725 PP $25.00 HB

I, Claudius and Claudius the God depict one of the strangest and most terrifying epochs in the history of Europe, as the Roman empire fell into the hands of cruel, mad, incompetent emporers: Tiberius, Caligula. Nero. These shocking and yet oddly comic novels depict the licentiousness and rapacity that triggered the power struggles of ancient Rome. Published in 1934 as dark clouds once more gathered over the western world, they dramatise the always unresolved struggle between anarchy and social order, and in doing so explore the strength and limitations of the values of decency and reason when confronted by evil.

PUBLISHED VOLUMES

The Centenary Selected Poems (1995)

edited by Patrick Quinn

edited by Patrick Quinn

edited by Patrick Quinn

edited by Patrick Quinn

Complete Poems Volume I (1995)

ISBN 1 85754 126 X

160 PP

€15.95 HB

edited by Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward Collected Writings on Poetry (1995)

ISBN 1 85754 171 5

448 pp

€25.00 HB

edited by Paul O' Prey

Complete Short Stories (1995)

ISBN 1 85754 172 3

577 PP

€35.00 HB

edited by Lucia Graves

ISBN 1 85754 131 6

340 pp

€25.00 HB

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