English poet, classical scholar, novelist, and critic who produced some 140 books.
Philosophy is antipoetic.
Phisosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without sel-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. Graves was born in Wimbledon, south London, into a middle-class family. His father, Alfred Percival Graves, was a school inspector, a Gaelic scholar and the author of the popular song 'Father O'Flynn'.