Robert Graves

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POETRY

• Over the Brazier, Poetry Bookshop, 1916.
• Goliath and David, Chiswick Press, 1916.
• Fairies and Fusiliers, Heinemann, 1917 , Knopf, 1918.
• The Treasure Box, Chiswick Press, 1919.
• Country Sentiment, Knopf, 1920.
• The Pier-Glass, Knopf, 1921.
• The Feather Bed, L. and V. Woolf, 1923.
• Whipperginny, Knopf, 1923.
• Mock Beggar Hall, Hogarth Press, 1924.
• Welchman's Hose, The Fleuron, 1925.
• Robert Graves, Benn, 1925.
• (Under pseudonym John Doyle) The Marmosite's Miscellany, Hogarth Press, 1925.
• Poems, 1914-1926, Heinemann, 1927, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929.
• Poems, 1914-1927, Heinemann, 1927.
• Poems, 1929, Seizin Press, 1929.
• Ten Poems More, Hours Press (Paris), 1930.
• Poems, 1926-1930, Heinemann, 1931.
• To Whom Else?, Seizin Press, 1931.
• Poems, 1930-1933, Barker, 1933.
• Collected Poems, Random House, 1938.
• No More Ghosts: Selected Poems, Faber, 1940.
• (With Alan Hodge and Norman Cameron) Work in Hand, Hogarth, 1942.
• Poems, 1938-1945, Creative Age Press, 1946.
• Collected Poems, 1914-1947, Cassell, 1948.
• Poems and Satires, Cassell, 1951.
• Poems, 1953, Cassell, 1953.
• Collected Poems, 1955, Doubleday, 1955.
• Robert Graves: Poems Selected by Himself, Penguin Books, 1957.
• The Poems of Robert Graves Chosen by Himself, Doubleday, 1958.
• Collected Poems, 1959, Cassell, 1959, Doubleday, 1961, 3rd edition, Cassell, 1962.
• The Penny Fiddle: Poems for Children, Cassell, 1960, Doubleday, 1961.
• More Poems, 1961, Cassell, 1961.
• Selected Poetry and Prose, edited, introduced, and annotated by James Reeves, Hutchinson, 1961.
• Poems, Collected by Himself, Doubleday, 1961.
• The More Deserving Cases: Eighteen Old Poems for Reconsideration, Marlborough College Press, 1962.
• New Poems 1962, Cassell, 1962, Doubleday, 1963.
• Ann at Highwood Hall: Poems for Children, Cassell, 1964.
• Man Does, Woman Is, Doubleday, 1964.
• Love Respelt, Cassell, 1965, Doubleday, 1966.
• Collected Poems, 1965, Cassell, 1965.
• Collected Poems, 1966, Doubleday, 1966.
• Seventeen Poems Missing From Love Respelt, Stellar Press, 1966.
• Colophon to "Love Respelt," Bertram Rota, 1967.
• (With D. H. Lawrence) Poems, edited by Leonard Clark, Longman, 1967.
• Poems, 1965-1968, Cassell, 1968.
• Beyond Giving, Bertram Rota, 1969.
• Love Respelt Again, Doubleday, 1969.
• Poems About Love, Cassell, 1969.
• Poems, 1968-1970, Cassell, 1970, Doubleday, 1971.
• Advice From a Mother, Poem-of-the-Month Club, 1970.
• Green-Sailed Vessel, Bertram Rota, 1971.
• Poems, 1970-1972, Cassell, 1972.
• Timeless Meeting, Bertram Rota, 1973.
• At the Gate, Bertram Rota, 1974.
• Collected Poems 1975, Cassell, 1975, published as New Collected Poems, Doubleday, 1977.
• Poems about War, Moyer Bell, 1992.
• Across the Gulf, New Seizin Press, 1994.
• Robert Graves: The Centenary Selected Poems, edited by Patrick Quinn, Carcanet, 1995.
• Complete Poems, Volume I, edited by Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward, Carcanet, 1995, published as The Complete Poems in One Volume, 2000.

Also author of Deya, 1973, Eleven Songs, 1983, Selected Poems, edited by Paul O'Prey, 1986.

 

FICTION

• My Head! My Head! Being the History of Elisha and the Shunamite Woman; With the History of Moses as Elisha Related It, and Her Questions Put to Him, Secker, 1925.
• The Shout, Mathews and Marrot, 1929.
• (With Laura Riding, under joint pseudonym Barbara Rich) No Decency Left, J. Cape, 1932.
• The Real David Copperfield, Barker, 1933.
• I, Claudius, Smith & Haas, 1934, revised edition, Random House, 1977.
• Claudius, the God and His Wife Messalina, Barker, 1934, Smith & Haas, 1935.
• "Antigua, Penny, Puce," Seizin Press and Constable, 1936, published as The Antigua Stamp, Random House, 1937.
• Count Belisarius, Random House, 1938.
• Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth, Methuen, 1940, published as Sergeant Lamb's America, Random House, 1940.
• Proceed, Sergeant Lamb, Random House, 1941.
• The Story of Marie Powell, Wife to Mr. Milton, Cassell, 1943, published as Wife to Mr. Milton: The Story of Marie Powell, Creative Age Press, 1944.
• The Golden Fleece, Cassell, 1944, published as Hercules, My Shipmate, Creative Age Press, 1945.
• King Jesus, Creative Age Press, 1946, 6th edition, Cassell, 1962.
• The Islands of Unwisdom, Doubleday, 1949 (published in England as The Isles of Unwisdom, Cassell, 1950 ).
• Watch the North Wind Rise, Creative Age Press, 1949 (published in England as Seven Days in New Crete, Cassell, 1949 ).
• Homer's Daughter, Doubleday, 1955.
• Catacrok! Mostly Stories, Mostly Funny, Cassell, 1956.
• They Hanged My Saintly Billy: The Life and Death of Dr. William Palmer, Doubleday, 1957.
• Collected Short Stories, Doubleday, 1964, published as The Shout and Other Stories, Penguin Books, 1978.
• Complete Short Stories, edited by Lucia Graves, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1996.

NONFICTION

• On English Poetry; Being an Irregular Approach to the Psychology of This Art, From Evidence Mainly Subjective, Knopf, 1922.
• The Meaning of Dreams, Palmer, 1924.
• Poetic Unreason and Other Studies, Palmer, 1925.
• Contemporary Techniques of Poetry: A Political Analogy, Hogarth Press, 1925.
• Another Future of Poetry, Hogarth Press, 1926.
• Impenetrability; or, The Proper Habit of English, L. and V. Woolf, 1926.
• (With Riding) A Survey of Modernist Poetry, Heinemann, 1927, Doubleday, Doran, 1928.
• Lawrence and the Arabs, J. Cape, 1927, published as Lawrence and the Arabian Adventure, Doubleday, Doran, 1928.
• Lars Porsena; or, The Future of Swearing and Improper Language, Dutton, 1927, revised edition published as The Future of Swearing and Improper Language, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1936.
• Mrs. Fisher; or, The Future of Humour, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1928.
• (With Riding) A Pamphlet Against Anthologies, J. Cape, 1928.
• Goodbye to All That: An Autobiography, J. Cape, 1929, J. Cape & H. Smith, 1930, revised edition, Doubleday, 1957.
• T. E. Lawrence to His Biographer, Doubleday, 1938, published with Liddell Hart's work as T. E. Lawrence to His Biographers, Doubleday, 1963, 2nd edition, Cassell, 1963.
• (With Alan Hodge) The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain, 1918-1939, Faber, 1940, Macmillan, 1941.
• (With Hodge) The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose, Macmillan, 1943, revised edition published as The Use and Abuse of the English Language, Paragon, 1990.
• The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Creative Age Press, 1948, amended and enlarged edition, Vintage Books, 1958.
• The Common Asphodel: Collected Essays on Poetry, 1922-1949, H. Hamilton, 1949.
• (With Joshua Podro) The Nazarene Gospel Restored, Cassell, 1953, Doubleday, 1954.
• (With Podro) Nazarene Gospel, Cassell, 1955.
• Adam's Rib, and Other Anomalous Elements in the Hebrew Creation Myth: A New View, Trianon Press, 1955, Yoseloff, 1958.
• The Greek Myths, two volumes, Penguin Books, 1955, condensed edition, Viking, 1992, as The Greek Myths: Complete Edition, Viking, 1993.
• The Crowning Privilege: The Clark Lectures, 1954-1955 (includes sixteen new poems), Cassell, 1955, Doubleday, 1956.
• (With Podro) Jesus in Rome: A Historical Conjecture, Cassell, 1957.
• 5 Pens in Hand, Doubleday, 1958.
• Steps: Stories, Talks, Essays, Poems, Studies in History, Cassell, 1958.
• Food for Centaurs: Stories, Talks, Critical Studies, Poems, Doubleday, 1960.
• Greek Gods and Heroes, Doubleday, 1960 (published in England as Myths of Ancient Greece, Cassell, 1961).
• Oxford Addresses on Poetry, Doubleday, 1962.
• Nine Hundred Iron Chariots, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963.
• (With Raphael Patal) Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis, Doubleday, 1964.
• Mammon (lecture; also see below), London School of Economics, 1964.
• Mammon and the Black Goddess (one section previously published as Mammon), Doubleday, 1965.
• Majorca Observed, Doubleday, 1965.
• Spiritual Quixote, Oxford University Press, 1967.
• Poetic Craft and Principle (collection of Oxford lectures), Cassell, 1967.
• (Author of introduction) Greece, Gods, and Art, Viking, 1968.
• The Crane Bag, Cassell, 1969.
• Difficult Questions, Easy Answers, Cassell, 1972, Doubleday, 1973.
• Selected Letters of Robert Graves, edited by Paul O'Prey, Hutchinson, Volume I: In Broken Images: 1914-1946, 1982, Volume II: Between Moon and Moon: 1946-1972, 1984.
• Conversations with Robert Graves, edited by Frank L. Kersnowski, University Press of Mississippi, 1989.
• Dear Robert, Dear Spike: The Graves-Milligan Correspondence, edited by Pauline Scudamore, Sutton, 1991.
• Robert Graves: Collected Writings on Poetry, edited by Paul O'Prey, Carcanet, 1995.

FOR CHILDREN

• The Big Green Book, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, Crowell, 1962.
• The Siege and Fall of Troy, Cassell, 1962, Doubleday, 1963.
• Two Wise Children, Harlin Quist, 1966.
• The Poor Boy Who Followed His Star, Cassell, 1968, Doubleday, 1969.
• The Ancient Castle, P. Owen, 1980.

EDITOR

• (And author of introduction and critical notes) The English Ballad: A Short Critical Survey, Benn, 1927, revised edition, Heinemann, 1957, published as English and Scottish Ballads, Macmillan, 1957.
• John Skelton (Laureate), 1460(?)-1529, Benn, 1927.
• (Compiler) The Less Familiar Nursery Rhymes, Benn, 1927.
• (And author of foreword) Algernon Charles Swinburne, An Old Saying, J. S. Mayfield, 1947.
• (And author of foreword) The Comedies of Terence, Doubleday, 1962, published as Comedies, Aldine, 1962.

Condensed Merrill P. Paine's edition of David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, Harcourt, 1934.

TRANSLATOR

• (With Laura Riding) Georg Schwarz, Almost Forgotten Germany, Random House, 1937.
• Lucius Apuleius, The Transformations of Lucius, Otherwise Known as "The Golden Ass," Farrar, Straus, 1951.
• Manuel de Jesus Galvan, The Cross and the Sword, Indiana University Press, 1954.
• Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, The Infant With the Globe, Faber, 1955.
• Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia: Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars, Penguin Books, 1956.
• George Sand, Winter in Majorca, illustrated by Maurice Sand, Cassell, 1956.
• Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Cassell, 1957.
• The Anger of Achilles: Homer's "Iliad" (produced at Lincoln Center, New York, 1967), Doubleday, 1959.
• Hesiodu Stamperia del Santuccio, Fable of the Hawk and the Nightingale, 1959.
• (With Omar Ali-Shah) The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam (based on the twelfth-century manuscript), Cassell, 1967, published as The Original Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam, Doubleday, 1968.
• Solomon's "Song of Songs," Cassell, 1968, Doubleday, 1969.

OTHER

• John Kemp's Wager: A Ballad Opera, S. French, 1925.
• But Still It Goes On: An Accumulation (includes the play "But It Still Goes On"), J. Cape, 1930, J. Cape & H. Smith, 1931.
• (Rewriter) Frank Richards, Old Soldiers Never Die, Faber & Faber, 1933.
• (Rewriter) Richards, Old-Soldier Sahib, Smith & Haas, 1936.
• Occupation: Writer (includes the play "Horses"), Creative Age Press, 1950.
• Nausicaa (opera libretto adapted from his novel Homer's Daughter; music by Peggy Glanville-Hicks), produced in Athens, Greece, 1961.
• Some Speculations on Literature, History, and Religion, edited by Patrick Quinn, Carcanet Press (Manchester, England), 2000.

Also author of television documentary, Greece: The Inner World, 1964. Many of Graves' letters and worksheets, as well as an autograph diary, is in the Graves Manuscript Collection at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Other papers are in the collections of Lockwood Memorial Library, State University of New York at Buffalo; Berg Collection, New York City Library; Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin; and University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale. Graves made several recordings of his work, including Robert Graves Reading His Own Poems, for Argo and Listen; Robert Graves Reading His Own Poetry and The White Goddess, for Caedmon; and The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam, for Spoken Arts.