About Robert Graves
Robert Graves, an English poet, was born on July 24, 1895
near London. He became known as a war poet during the
first World War, for which he enlisted. He spent a lot of
time in the trenches and was injured on a couple
occasions. While on active duty, Grave published three

books of poetry.

In January 1918, he married Nancy Nicolson, and the couple had four children together. Unfortunately, the couple's marriage lasted less than ten years. Graves met American poet and theorist Laura Riding in 1926, and she is said to be the most important element in his poetic career because she changed the way he wrote. The two of them ended up together after his

separation from Nancy Nicolson. The couple moved to
America after spending time in Majorca, a Spanish island,
but Laura left him for another writer in 1939. They had not
been married.
A year later, a third and final relationship was started with
Beryl Hodge. After marrying, the couple moved to
Majorca, and they had four children together.
In 1985, Graves was commemorated on a stone at
Westminster Abbey with 15 other war poets. He was the
only one still living at the time.
Graves continued writing until ten years before his death,
when memory loss left him in a very dependent state. He
passed away in Majorca on December 7, 1985 from heart
failure.