![]() ![]() In later years he omitted war poems from his collections, on the grounds that they were too obviously "part of the war poetry boom". He developed an early reputation as a war poet and was one of the first to write realistic poems about his experience of front line conflict. ![]() He published his first volume of poems, Over the Brazier, in 1916. Johnstone, a boy of fourteen ("Dick" in Goodbye to All That) When challenged by the headmaster he defended himself by citing Plato, Greek poets, Michelangelo & Shakespeare, "who had felt as I did".Īt the outbreak of WWI, Graves enlisted almost immediately, taking a commission in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. While at Charterhouse in 1912, he fell in love with G.H. Robert von Ranke Graves (1895-1985), born in Wimbledon, received his early education at King's College School and Copthorne Prep School, Wimbledon & Charterhouse School and won a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford. ![]()
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