Male : Writer, author and poet. Son of the Irish Writer Alfred Perceval Graves & Amalia von Ranke. Married Nancy Nicholson. In 1929 he settled at Deya in Majorca with the poet Laura Riding. He left Majorca in 1936 and met and married Beryl Pritchard (1915-2003)

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Wimbledon, London

Date of Birth : 1895 Date of Death : 1985 Age : 90

Pseudonyms : John Doyle. Private Frank Richards

Other Work : Ran the Seizin Press with Laura Riding in Majorca. Professor of Poetry at Oxford 1961-6

Education : Charterhouse & St John's College, Oxford

Before 1920
Over the Brazier & Other Poems (1916 Poetry Bookshop) (1920 Poetry Bookshop 2nd Ed)
Goliath and David (1916 Chiswick Press) - Ltd Ed 200
Fairies & Fusiliers : Poems (1917 Heinemann) (1918 Knopf)

1920-1925
Treasure Box (1920 Chiswick Press) - Nancy Nicholson
Country Sentiment (1920 Martin Secker)
The Pier-Glass (1921 Secker)
(Co-Ed with Alan Porter & Richard Hughes) Oxford Poetry 1921 (1921 Blackwell)
Whipperginny (1923 Heinemann)
On English Poetry (1922 Knopf) (1922 Heinemann)
The Feather Bed (1923 Hogarth Press) - Ltd Ed 250 Signed
Mock Beggar Hall (1923 Hogarth Press)
The Meaning of Dreams (1924 Cecil Palmer)
Welchman's Hose (1925 Fleuron Press, London) - Ltd Ed 525. Paul Nash
Poetic Unreason & Other Studies (1925 Cecil Palmer)
Poems (1925 Benn)
John Kemp's Wager : A Ballad Opera (1925 Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford) - Signed Ltd Ed 100
Contemporary Techniques of Poetry : A Political Analogy (1925 Hogarth Press)
The Marmosite's Miscellany (1925 Hogarth Press) - as John Doyle
My Head ! My Head ! (1925 Secker)

1926-1930
Poems 1914-1926 (1926 Heinemann)
Another Future of Poetry (1926 Hogarth Press)
A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927 Heinemann) - with Laura Riding
The English Ballad : A Short Critical Survey (1927 Benn)
(Ed) John Skelton (Laureate) (1927 Benn)
(Ed) The Less Familiar Nursery Rhymes (1927 Benn)
Impenetrability or The Proper Habit of English (1927 Hogarth Press) - Vanessa Bell cover
Poems (1927 Heinemann) - Ltd Ed 115 Signed copies
Lars Porsena or the Future of Swearing and Improper Language (1927 Kegan Paul)
Lawrence and the Arabs (1927 Cape)
A Pamphlet Against Anthologies (1928 Cape) - with Laura Riding
(2002 Carcanet £14.95)
Mrs Fisher, or The Future of Humour (1928 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner)
Goodbye to all That: An Autobiography (1929 Cape) (1930 Cape & Smith) (1957 Cassell - revised Ed)
Poems 1929 (1929 Seizen Press) - Signed Ltd Eds 225
The Shout (1929 Elkin Mathews & Marrot) - Signed Ltd Ed 530
[Filmed in 1978]
Ten Poems More (1930 Hours Press, Paris) - 200 copies
But it Still Goes On : An Accumulation (1930 Cape) - 250 signed
To Return to All That (1930 Cape)

1931-1935
Poems 1926-1930 (1931 Heinemann)
To Whom Else ? (1931 Seizin Press, Mallorca) - 200 copies
No Decency Left (1932 Cape) - with Barbara Rich (Laura Riding)
Poems 1930-1933 (1933 Barker)
The Real David Copperfield (1933 Barker)
I, Claudius (1934 Barker) (1934 Smith & Haas)
Claudius the God & His Wife Messalina (1934 Barker) (1935 Smith & Haas)

1936-1940
Antigua Penny Puce (1936 Seizin Press, London/Constable)
(Trans) George Schwarz - Almost Forgotten Germany (1936 Constable / Seizin Press)
- with Laura Riding
Old Soldier Sahib (1936 Faber) (1936 Harrison Smith & Haas NY) - by Private Frank Richards
Count Belisarius (1938 Cassell)
Collected Poems (1938 Cassell)
T E Lawrence to His Biographer, Robert Graves (1938 Doubleday) (1939 Faber)
No More Ghosts : Selected Poems (1940 Faber)
The Long Week-End : A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939 (1940 Faber 12/6)
- with Alan Hodge
Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth (1940 Methuen)

1941-1945
Proceed Sergeant Lamb (1941 Methuen)
Work in Hand (1942 HP) - with Norman Cameron & Alan Hodge
Poems (1943 Eyre & Spottiswoode)
The Reader Over Your Shoulder : A Handbook for Writers of English Prose (1943 Cape 18/-) - with Alan Hodge
The Story of Mary Powell : Wife to Mr Milton (1943 Cassell)
The Golden Fleece (1944 Cassell) (1945 in US as "Hercules My Shipmate", Creative Age, NY)
Man Does, Woman Is (1945 London)

1946-1950
Poems 1938-1945 (1946 Curwen Press)
King Jesus (1946 Creative Age Press, US) (1946 Cassell)
Collected Poems 1914-1947 (1948 Cassell)
The White Goddess : A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (1948 Faber) (1948 NY)
The Common Asphodel : Collected Essays on Poetry 1922-1949 (1949 Hamish Hamilton)
Watch the North Wind Rise : A Novel (1949 Creative Age, NY)
(in UK as "Seven Days in New Crete" 1949 Cassell)
The Islands of Unwisdom (1949 Doubleday) (in UK as "The Isles of Unwisdom" 1950 Cassell)
(Trans) The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius (1950 Penguin)
Occupation : Writer (1950 Creative Age Press, NY) (1951 Cassell)

1951-1955
Poems and Satires (1951 Cassell)
Poems 1953 (1953 Cassell 7/6) - + Signed Ltd Ed 250 on handmade paper at 15/-
The Nazarene Gospel Restored (1953 Cassell) (1954 US) - with Joshua Podro
(Trans) Manuel de Jesus Galvan - The Cross and the Sword from Enriquillio
(1954 Bloomington UP, US) (1956 Gollancz)
The Greek Myths (1955 Penguin) - 2 vols
Homer's Daughter (1955 Cassell 10/6)
Collected Poems 1955 (1955 Doubleday)
The Crowning Privilege: The Clark Lectures 1954-55 (1955 Cassell 15/-)
Adam's Rib (1955 Trianon Press) - James Metcalf. 250 signed
(Trans) Pedro de Alarcon : The Infant with the Globe from El Nino de la Bola (1955 Trianon Press)

1956-1960
Catacrok ! Mostly Stories, Mostly Funny (1956 Cassell 15/-)
(Trans & Annotated) Winter in Majorca by George Sand (1956 Valldemosa Edition, Mallorca)
(Trans & Annotated) Winter in Majorca by George Sand (1956 Cassell)
(Trans) Lucan : Pharsalia (1956 Penguin) (1957 Penguin, US Hb)
They Hanged My Saintly Billy (1957 Cassell)
Poems Selected by Himself (1957 Penguin pb)
(Trans) Suetonius : The Twelve Caesars (1957 Penguin)
Jesus in Rome : An Historical Conjecture (1957 Cassell) - with Joshua Podro
Steps (1958 Cassell)
Five Pens in Hand : Lectures, Essays etc (1958 Doubleday)
The Poems of Robert Graves (1958 Doubleday)
Collected Poems 1959 (1959 Cassell)
(Trans) Homer : The Anger of Achilles - Homer's Iliad (1959 Doubleday) (1960 Cassell)
Food for Centaurs (1960 Doubleday)
The Penny Fiddle : Poems for Children (1960 London) (1961 Doubleday) - Ardizzone
Greek Gods & Heroes (1960 Doubleday) (in UK as "Myths of Ancient Greece" 1961 Cassell)

1961-1965
More Poems 1961 (1961 Cassell)
Collected Poems (1961 Doubleday)
Selected Poetry and Prose (1961 Hutchinson) - edited by James Reeves
New Poems 1962 (1962 Cassell)
Oxford Addresses on Poetry (1962 Cassell)
(Ed) The Comedies of Terence (1962 Doubleday) (1963 Cassell)
The More Deserving Cases : 18 Old Poems for Reconsideration
(1962 Marlborough College Press) - Ltd Ed 750
The Siege and Fall of Troy (1962 Cassell) - C Walter Hodges
The Big Green Book (1962 Crowell-Collier Press, NY) - Maurice Sendak
Ann at Highwood Hall : Poems for Children (1963 Cassell) - Edward Ardizzone
Hebrew Myths : The Book of Genesis (1964 Doubleday) (1964 Cassell) - with Raphael Patai
Man Does, Woman Is (1964 Cassell) - Trade Ed
Man Does, Woman Is (1964 Cassell) - Signed Ltd Ed 175
Collected Short Stories (1964 Doubleday) (1965 Cassell)
Collected Poems 1965 (1965 Cassell)
Love Respelt (1965 Cassell)
Majorca Observed (1965 Cassell) -Paul Hogarth
Mammon and the Black Goddess (1965 Cassell)

1966-1970
Seventeen Poems Missing From Love Respelt (1966 PP) - Signed Ltd Ed 330
Colophon to Love Respelt (1967 PP for the Author) - Signed Ltd Ed 336
Two Wise Children (1967 Quist, US) - Ralph Pinto
Poetic Craft and Principle (1967 Cassell)
(Trans) Omar Khayyam : The Rubaiyat of .. (1967 Cassell) - with Omar Ali-Shah
The Poor Boy who Followed His Star (1968 Cassell) - Alice Meyer-Wallace
Greek Myths and Legends (1968 Cassell)
Poems 1965-1968 (1968 Cassell)
Poems about Love (1969 Cassell)
The Crane Bag (1969 Cassell)
On Poetry : Collected Talks and Essays (1969 Doubleday)
Love Respelt Again (1969 Doubleday, NY) - Trade Ed
Love Respelt Again (1969 Doubleday, NY) - Signed Ltd Ed 1000
Beyond Giving (1969 PP) - 536 signed
Poems 1968-1970 (1970 Cassell)
Advice from a Mother (1970 Poem of the Month Club) - broadsheet

1971-1979
Poems : Abridged for Dolls and Princes (1971 Cassell)
The Green-Sailed Vessel : Poems (1971 PP) - Signed Ltd Ed 536
Difficult Questions, Easy Answers (1972 Cassell)
Poems 1970-1972 (1972 Cassell)
Deya : A Portfolio (1972 Motif Editions)
(Trans) The Song of Songs (1973 Clarkson Potter, NY) (1973 Collins) - Hans Erni
Timeless Meeting : Poems (1973 PP) - Signed Ltd Ed 536
At the Gate Poems (1974 PP by B Rota, London. 536) (1974 Stellar Press, US - Signed Ltd Ed 536)
The Last Running (1974 Encino Press, Austin, Texas)
Collected Poems 1975 (1975 Cassell)
New Collected Poems (1977 Doubleday)

After 1980
An Ancient Castle (1980 Peter Owen £3.95) - Elizabeth Graves
Poems (1980 Ltd Eds Club NY) - 2000 signed by Paul Hogarth & the designer Freeman Keith. Boxed
Collected Letters (1984 & 1988 Moyer Bell UK & US) - 2 vols
Cynics and Romantics (1989 Gruffyground Press) - 150 signed by Robert Tilleard
Collected Writings on Poetry (1995 Carcanet £35)
Complete Poems : Vol 2 (1997 Carcanet £30) - Edited by Beryl Graves & Dunstan Ward
Robert Graves : The Complete Poems in One Volume (2001 Carcanet £50)

READING
Martyn Seymour-Smith : Robert Graves - An Essay (1956 Longmans, Green)
Fred H Higginson : A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Graves
(1966 Vane / Shoe String Press, US)
T S Matthews : Under the Influence - Recollections of Robert Graves. Laura Riding & Friends
(1979 Cassell £5.95)
Martyn Seymour-Smith : Robert Graves - His Life and Works (1982 Hutchinson)
(1995 Bloomsbury £25)
Richard Perceval Graves : Robert Graves - The Assault Heroic 1895-1926
(1986 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Hallam Bell Bryant : Robert Graves - An Annotated Bibliography (1986 Garland)
Richard Perceval Graves : Robert Graves - The Years with Laura 1926-1940
(1990 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Deborah Baker : In extremis - The Life of Laura Riding (1993 Grove Press US)
Richard Perceval Graves : Robert Graves and the White Goddess 1940-1985 (1995 W & N £25)
Miranda Seymour : Robert Graves - Life on the Edge (1995 Doubleday £20)
William Graves : Wild Olives - Life in Majorca with Robert Graves (1995 Hutchinson £18.99)
Lucia Graves : A Woman Unknown - Voices from a Spanish Life (1999 Virago £18.99)
[Autobiography by Graves's daughter]