Life of Robert von Ranke Graves to 1929
- 26 July 1895, born, Wimbledon (London)
- 1910-14, attends Charterhouse
- 1914, enlists
- 1915?, Royal Welch Fusiliers
- 1916, Somme (severely wounded, publishes book of poems)
- 1917, publishes poems in collection
- 1917, in England about 18 months
- 1918, marries Nancy Nicholson
- 1920s, poems published, at St. John's College, Oxford
- 1926, invites Laura Riding to England, separates from wife
- 1927, publishes biography of T.E. Lawrence
- 1929, publishes, Good-bye to All That (rev. 1957)
- as are Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front,
- and, later, Sassoon's Memoirs of an Infantry Man)
- 1930s?, exle in Majorca with Laura Riding
The Western Front
- Tragedy on the Somme:
A Second Balaclava
- Part of World War I: Trenches on the Web ("The 80th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme," 1916-96)
- The
Western Front, part of Spartacus Educational
(includes The Somme, Douglas Haig, etc.) - Counter-Attack:
Chronology of the First World War by Michele Fry
(see 1916 and the Somme) - Royal Welsh Fusiliers 1914-1918
- Part of The Long, Long Trail:
the Story of the British Army of 1914-1918
(note the number disbanded and merged regiments in this period)
- Part of The Long, Long Trail:
the Story of the British Army of 1914-1918
- Western Front 1914-1918
(Gaming site really, but scroll down on articles to the Flash Map of the Western Front, including the Somme [very cool]) - First World War.Com
(first rate: includes article on Robert Graves and information on prose and poetry written during/about the war)
Robert Graves
- Robert
von Ranke Graves
(from Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Eastern Illinois University subscribers only) - St. John's College
Robert Graves Trust
(includes: lengthy biography) - Virtual Seminars
for Teaching Literature (mainly World War I and Literature), includes
- Goodbye
To All That by Robert Graves
(includes extracts and links to relevant, brief biographies) - Introduction
to First World War Poetry
(includes discussion of Graves's friends Wilfred Owen and Siegried Sassoon) - First
World War and Poetry Links
- Goodbye
To All That by Robert Graves