Robert Graves Libri

Prima della scienza, prima della religione, c’è il mito. Modo ingenuo – ci dicono –, modo fantasioso, spregiudicato e prescientifico, di spiegare l’origine delle cose e degli uomini, gli usi i costumi e le leggi. Filologia, etnografia, antropologia hanno lacerato il velo del mito, evidenziandone le radici ideologiche, il retroterra di superstizione e di magia. Ma i miti, così dissezionati, ci vengono restituiti alla stregua di freddi reperti anatomici, buoni tuttalpiù per qualche museo. Robert Graves è riuscito a rianimare questa materia ormai inerte, restituendocela con tutto il suo splendore, il suo sense of wonder e (anche) of humour. I miti greci, pur senza dover invidiare nulla ad altre raccolte analoghe condotte sulla scorta della filologia e dell’erudizione, ha un pregio fondamentale: i centosettantuno capitoli che lo compongono si snodano con la sveltezza e col brio di un racconto ben scritto, di una rievocazione partecipe e disincantata al tempo stesso, di un mondo incantato e incantevole. Nessuna retorica, nessun manierismo: le gesta degli dèi e degli eroi, che di per sé tendono all’epico, sono costantemente ricondotte alla nostra misura umana, immerse come sono nella quotidianità (sia pure dell’antica Grecia). Così Zeus, Era, Afrodite, Eracle compiono non solo prodigi e grandi imprese, ma sono afflitti da acciacchi, perseguitati dalla sfortuna, schiattano di rabbia, si concedono scappatelle e hanno le paturnie. E tutto senza «smitizzare» i miti, ma – al contrario – con la preoccupazione di salvaguardarne, assieme alla sostanza, anche il sapore, con uno stile e un piglio che debbono più alla grande lezione del Ramo d’oro di Frazer che al forse necessario ma anche triste lavoro di scavo di un Freud, di uno Jung, di un Kerényi...

Terence, a prominent Roman comic playwright, is celebrated for his exceptional stylistic perfection and artistic restraint, achieving remarkable acclaim in just twenty-six years. His work, alongside that of Plautus, positions him as one of the greatest figures in Roman comedy, showcasing his influence and mastery in the genre.

Written in the form of Claudius' autobiography, this is the first part of Roberts Graves's account of the madness and debaucheery of ancient Rome, and stands as one of the most celebrated, gripping historical novels ever written.

Graves created a rich mythology where love, fear, fantasy and the supernatural play an essential role. Intimate yet universal, passionate yet precise, their brilliant alchemy of realism and magic made Graves' poems some of the finest. This book presents the achievement of Graves' seventy productive years. schovat popis

This collection of Robert Graves' essays, written between 1922 and 1972, is organized around the thematic categories of literature, history and religion. It show Graves' intellectual development by presenting the essays chronologically to show how ideas begin and evolve over half a century. schovat popis

The Latin text, with introduction and commentary, of the biography of the emperor Claudius by Suetonius. schovat popis

Robert Graves's War Poems is a significant publishing event, the first book to collect all of Graves's poems from and about World War One, including for the first time the whole of 'The Patchwork Flag', and a number of poems never previously in print. It includes poems written while Graves was on active service on the Western Front, and many from the years that followed, revealing his changing perspectives on the First World War and other contemporary and historical conflicts. Graves's is an authentic voice, and his experience of fighting at both the Battle of Loos and the Battle of the Somme produces poetry revealing an extraordinary combination of fantastical and realistic nightmare. War Poems collects Graves's first two major published volumes: Over the Brazier (1916) and Fairies and Fusiliers (1917), which incorporates poems from the privately-printed pamphlet Goliath and David. In 1918 Graves completed a third major collection of poems, to be called 'The Patchwork Flag', but which was never published as a whole. For many years the typescript lay in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection at the New York Public Library, and now appears, excitingly, almost a century after composition, as an unexpected addition to the canon of First World War poetry. Graves's poems are accompanied by an informative Introduction, which explores Graves's personal and professional relationships with other writers including Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, drawing on many unpublished letters in the process. Explanatory notes explore specific biographical, cultural, military and historical contexts. The poems are published in their first edition, first impression form, a return to first principles also recently adopted in the new edition (2014) of Good-bye to All That, Graves's 1929 classic war memoir, a companion text to the War Poems. -- from dust jacket

Boisterous, witty, and enchanting, this collection of children's poems by Robert Graves--with iconic drawings by Edward Ardizzone--will delight any young reader. First published over 50 years ago, this is a faithful reproduction of the 1964 original that was published in the United States and Great Britain. Seven poems evoke the world of Victorian England and include the story of Ann, "the third-but-youngest child of seventeen" who runs away to live at a duke's palace; a valentine in verse; a battle of words lost in translation between King George II and the Chinese Emperor; a bedside visit to a little girl from her doctor; and a lively argument between young Caroline and Charles that sounds a lot like 21st-century banter between children. Ann at Highwood Hall will thrill scholars of Robert Graves, collectors of classic children's books, illustrators, historians... and poetry lovers of all ages.

In The story of Marie Powell, Wife to Mr. Milton (1943) Robert Graves - half a century before Carol Ann Duffy - creates a Mrs for a famous Mr, a Mr who Graves regards as one of the heinous monsters in the English poetic pantheon. Certainly his Mrs Milton is ill-used by a distended genius. schovat popis

Robert Graves, classicist, poet and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience. He demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek mythology is �no more mysterious in content than are modern election cartoons�. All the scattered elements of each myth are assembled into a harmonious narrative, and many variants are recorded which may help to determine its ritual or historical meaning. Full indexes and references to the classical sources make the book as valuable to the scholar as the general reader. And a full commentary on each myth interprets the classical version in the light of contemporary archaeological and anthropological knowledge.