![]() ![]() ![]() Graves is reflexive without being becoming mawkish. Surprisingly perhaps for a poet, unnecessary literary flourishes are absent. The author has a lean prose style that is very readable. Although written in chronological order in the style of a diary, it is not a dry, mechanical chronology. Although Goodbye to All That deals with Graves’ early life and the ten years after his demobilisation, these minor sections are really just book-ends to the majority of the text in which the writer describes his service as a junior officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers during the Great War.īased on a book that Graves started, but did not finish, in 1916, Goodbye to All That tells the story of Graves’ time on the Western Front. Perhaps better known as a poet and writer of historical fiction – notably I Claudius – in 1929 Robert Graves wrote an autobiographical account of the first thirty years or so of his life. ![]()
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