![]() ![]() His translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (with Omar Ali-Shah) is also published in Penguin. ![]() He also translated Apuleius, Lucan and Suetonius for the Penguin Classics, and compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek Mythology, The Greek Myths. Two of his most discussed non-fiction works are The White Goddess, which presents a new view of the poetic impulse, and The Nazarine Gospel Restored (with Joshua Podro), a re-examination of primitive Christianity. The Times Literary Supplement acclaimed it as 'one of the most candid self portraits of a poet, warts and all, ever painted', as well as being of exceptional value as a war document. ![]() He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. After this, apart from a year as Professor of English Literature at Cairo University in 1926, he earned his living by writing, mostly historical novels, including: I, Claudius Claudius the God Count Belisarius Wife of Mr Milton Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth Proceed, Sergeant Lamb The Golden Fleece They Hanged My Saintly Billy and The Isles of Unwisdom. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon, the son of Irish writer Perceval Graves and Amalia Von Ranke. ![]()
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