Robert Graves' 'curiously innocent egocentricity' explored

Robert Graves
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In his introduction to the 1958 anthology of his love poems, addressed to many women over a period of half a century, Robert Graves reminds us that “poetry should not be confused with autobiography”. Too true.

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