Talk:Robert Graves

message: This is the text by Dr Ian Firla, St John's College, Oxford, that appears at http://www.deepsky.com/~graves/bio.html .  How do we know it's not a copyright violation to have it here, please? -- isis 05:55 Sep 23, 2002 (UTC)
:It's quite explicitly copyrighted (1999), and contains no license that would allow our use here.  If someone wants to contact the author for explicit permission, that would be nice, but until then we can't use it even in the talk page here (though we should of course retain the link above).  --LDC
I'm the author of the Graves Trust pages. Explicit permission is, of course, granted. I will updated the copyright statement on the pages linked to above, but also point out that the link above has been updated on the new home for the Trust:
http://www.robertgraves.org/bio.php
--kubla
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Can anyone speak of the 'degeneration' he suffered at the end of his life?--DennisDaniels 02:57, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Must have been Altzheimers or something akin to it, perhaps influenced by his war injuries.  Evidently he visited the TV production of I, Claudius in the late 70s and the cast and crew were quite saddened by his mental condition. -- Cranston Lamont 16:17, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

text: His dementia evidently resulted from being too long under anesthesia during a prolonged operation in 1974 to correct ancient injuries to his nose. I believe this is documented in the Miranda Seymour biography. 2601:84:8A00:2860:99:2AC7:331B:2301 (talk) 00:04, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Early comments - no headings 

message: A number of works now listed as "novels" (here and on the bibliography article) clearly are not--some are short story collections, some appear to be nonfiction. Nareek 21:17, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibiliography 

message: The remarkable details of their sojourn there and ultimate breakup have been told in several books...
This is lacking in any detail whatsoever, and is nonencyclopedic in style. If someone knows about this period in his life, could it be filled in, rather than simply referencing two books, one of which is a novel? --DrGaellon 03:32, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pennsylvania Stay 

message: "Edmund Blunden and Siegfried Sassoon, deeply suspicious of the work...." I don't know much about Graves but this isolated statement is intriguing. Could someone please elaborate on this. What do you mean by suspicion? Why were they suspicious? (Voloshinov 23:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suspicion?

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message: I find it strange that his views about matriarchy and the history of myths/religions are not mentioned at all. All that is said is that The White Goddess is difficult (POV, btw) and his unconventional interpretations and etymologies are dismissed by classicists. Of course his writings do not (and might not be meant to) stand up to scientific scrutiny, but he has been very influential in modern belief systems such as identitarian feminism and neopaganism, and this deserves some mention.--87.162.24.204 (talk) 15:31, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of his hypotheses? 

message: See  and  - shouldn't they be in the article? Dougweller (talk) 06:43, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accusations of plagiarism 

message: The article states that Robert Graves was a classical scholar, but no details are given on the subject, besides: "Following his marriage and the end of the First World War, Graves belatedly took up his place at St John's College, Oxford."
Well, but what did he study, how long, and what degree did he earn (if any? Did he write a dissertation? On what subject?
Nothing of these is clear from the article.
Ben Jamin  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.71.38.142 (talk) 08:29, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem 

message: I think translations should be broken out from "other".Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:07, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translations 

message: Is it worth mentioning Graves' brief folly into journal creating/editing? (Percy Penniless 20:13, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Folly ? Do you mean, perhaps, ' foray'? A foray is by defintion, brief. 2001:44B8:3102:BB05:DC72:A803:F0F3:D839 (talk) 09:55, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Owl 

message: The page seems very fragmented.
I - knowing nothing about the man- came to this page to get info on his life as a quick overview. -Not there. his work crushes everything (as so often on BLP), to me a weight issue. The following should be in at a minimum.
* His geographical movements are not mentioned, briefly mentioned if at all. I realize, he died in Spain - since when was he there?
* He had 8 children, mentioned like an afterword. 
*He had 2 wifes and at least one lover, mentioned by name only.
The fragmentation of what is commonly one section, personal life, into death and children causes incoherence and is unwise.--Wuerzele (talk) 17:09, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  another To Do issue: basic facts - coherence 

message: Would this be an appropriate external link? http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/A_E2043B1A0FD144ED8E01795240C97CC2 (I've helped with the site, so it'd be a conflict of interest for me to add it.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mccallucc (talk • contribs) 17:54, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link? Speaking at MIT on the roles of science and art 

message: "in due course "  usually points to a foregone conclusion.   If he had relatives who  were boxing champions or this article pointed out how hard he worked, then it might be "in due course " that he became a boxing champion.  
100.15.120.162 (talk) 00:46, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  why is it due? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This article has a severe case and radical surgery may be required. EEng 06:24, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed all eight examples of wouldery from the Sexuality section, among a few other style changes. Preceding woulds were appropriate ~~ Erewhonian (talk) 08:19, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work! I'm awarding you the INTOTHEWOULDS Order of Merit First Class, with Oak Leaves and Teensy Sapphire Chips. You pay only postage and handling. EEng 08:31, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
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