Book Series Guide

Robert Graves

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Robert Ranke Graves (1895–1985) was an English poet, novelist, critic, mythographer, translator, and memoirist. A veteran of the First World War, he published more than one hundred books across poetry, fiction, literary criticism, mythology, biblical studies, history, autobiography, children's literature, and translation. His major works include Goodbye to All That, I, Claudius, Claudius the God, The White Goddess, The Greek Myths, and the Sergeant Lamb novels. He lived for much of his later life in Deià, Mallorca.

poetryhistorical fictionliterary criticismmythologybiblical studiesmemoirautobiographyessaysshort storieschildren's literaturesocial historyplays

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Cover of I, Claudius

I, Claudius

The best entry point for Graves's historical fiction and his most widely read novel.

Cover of Goodbye to All That

Goodbye to All That

The clearest introduction to Graves's life, war experience, and prose style.

Cover of The White Goddess

The White Goddess

The central starting point for Graves's theories of poetry, myth, and the poetic imagination.

Read in order

Books by series

novel series · complete

Claudius

Robert Graves's two historical novels narrated by the Roman emperor Claudius.

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    I, Claudius

    Book 1 · historical novel · 1934

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  2. 2 Cover of Claudius the God
    Claudius the God

    Book 2 · historical novel · 1934

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novel series · complete

Sergeant Lamb

Historical novels following Roger Lamb, an Irish soldier in the American Revolutionary War.

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    Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth

    Book 1 · historical novel · 1940

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    Proceed, Sergeant Lamb

    Book 2 · historical novel · 1941

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Outside the series

Bibliography by category

Novels (11)
  1. My Head! My Head!

    historical fiction · 1925

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  2. No Decency Left

    novel · 1932

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    Antigua, Penny, Puce

    novel · 1936

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    Count Belisarius

    historical novel · 1938

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    Wife to Mr. Milton

    historical novel · 1943

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    The Golden Fleece

    mythological novel · 1944

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    King Jesus

    historical novel · 1946

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  8. Watch the North Wind Rise

    novel · 1949

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  9. The Isles of Unwisdom

    historical novel · 1949

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    Homer's Daughter

    historical novel · 1955

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    They Hanged My Saintly Billy

    historical novel · 1957

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Nonfiction (17)
  1. On English Poetry

    literary criticism · 1922

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  2. Poetic Unreason

    literary criticism · 1925

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  3. Contemporary Techniques of Poetry

    literary criticism · 1925

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  4. Another Future of Poetry

    literary criticism · 1926

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    Lawrence and the Arabs

    biography · 1927

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  6. A Survey of Modernist Poetry

    literary criticism · 1927

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  7. A Pamphlet Against Anthologies

    literary criticism · 1928

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    Goodbye to All That

    autobiography · 1929

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    The Long Week-End

    social history · 1940

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  10. The Augustan Poets

    literary criticism · 1943

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    The White Goddess

    mythology and literary criticism · 1948

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  12. The Common Asphodel

    literary criticism · 1949

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  13. The Crowning Privilege

    literary criticism · 1955

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  14. Oxford Addresses on Poetry

    literary criticism · 1962

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  15. Majorca Observed

    travel writing · 1965

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  16. Poetic Craft and Principle

    literary criticism · 1967

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  17. On Poetry: Collected Talks and Essays

    literary criticism · 1969

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Short fiction (6)
  1. Mrs Fisher, or the Future of Humour

    short fiction · 1928

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  2. The Shout

    short fiction · 1929

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  3. No More Ghosts

    short-story collection · 1940

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  4. Catacrock!

    short-story collection · 1956

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  5. Collected Short Stories

    short-story collection · 1964

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  6. Cover of Complete Short Stories
    Complete Short Stories

    short-story collection · 1995

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Essays and speeches (22)
  1. The Meaning of Dreams

    essays · 1924

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  2. Welchman's Hose

    poetry pamphlet · 1925

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  3. Robert Graves

    poetry pamphlet · 1925

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  4. Lars Porsena or The Future of Swearing

    essays · 1927

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  5. To Juan at the Winter Solstice

    poetry pamphlet · 1944

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  6. Steps

    essays · 1958

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  7. Fable of the Hawk and the Nightingale

    poetry pamphlet · 1959

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  8. More Deserving Cases

    essays · 1962

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  9. Nine Hundred Iron Chariots

    essays · 1963

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  10. A New Poem

    poetry pamphlet · 1963

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  11. El fenómeno del turismo

    essay · 1964

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  12. Ann at Highwood Hall

    poetry pamphlet · 1964

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    Mammon and the Black Goddess

    essays · 1965

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  14. Seventeen Poems Missing From Love Respelt

    poetry pamphlet · 1966

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  15. Colophon to Love Respelt

    poetry pamphlet · 1967

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  16. Sixteen Poems

    poetry pamphlet · 1967

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  17. The Crane Bag and Other Disputed Subjects

    essays · 1969

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  18. Difficult Questions, Easy Answers

    essays · 1972

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  19. Two Poems

    poetry pamphlet · 1982

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  20. Some Speculations on Literature, History and Religion

    essays · 2000

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  21. Essays from Epilogue, 1935–1937

    essays · 2001

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  22. Individual Happiness Now

    essays · 2017

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Children's books (8)
  1. The Penny Fiddle

    children's verse · 1960

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    The Big Green Book

    children's story · 1962

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  3. The Siege and Fall of Troy

    children's mythology · 1962

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  4. Two Wise Children

    children's story · 1966

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  5. The Poor Boy Who Followed His Star

    children's story · 1968

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  6. Greek Myths and Legends

    children's mythology · 1968

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    An Ancient Castle

    children's story · 1980

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  8. The Secret Land

    children's story · 1981

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Poetry (46)
  1. Over the Brazier

    poetry collection · 1916

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  2. Goliath and David

    poetry collection · 1917

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    Fairies and Fusiliers

    poetry collection · 1917

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  4. Treasure Box

    poetry collection · 1919

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  5. Country Sentiment

    poetry collection · 1920

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  6. The Pier-Glass

    poetry collection · 1921

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  7. Wipperginny

    poetry collection · 1923

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  8. The Feather Bed

    poetry collection · 1923

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  9. Mock Beggar Hall

    poetry collection · 1924

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  10. Impenetrability

    poetry collection · 1927

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  11. Poems (1914–1926)

    poetry collection · 1927

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  12. Poems (1914–1927)

    poetry collection · 1927

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  13. Poems 1929

    poetry collection · 1929

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  14. Ten Poems More

    poetry collection · 1930

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  15. Poems 1926–1930

    poetry collection · 1931

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  16. To Whom Else

    poetry collection · 1931

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  17. Poems 1930–1933

    poetry collection · 1933

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  18. Cover of Collected Poems
    Collected Poems

    poetry collection · 1938

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  19. Poems 1938–1945

    poetry collection · 1945

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  20. Collected Poems (1914–1947)

    poetry collection · 1947

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  21. Poems and Satires

    poetry collection · 1951

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  22. Poems 1953

    poetry collection · 1953

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  23. Collected Poems 1955

    poetry collection · 1955

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  24. The Poems of Robert Graves

    poetry collection · 1958

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  25. Collected Poems 1959

    poetry collection · 1959

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  26. More Poems 1961

    poetry collection · 1961

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  27. New Poems 1962

    poetry collection · 1962

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  28. Man Does, Woman Is

    poetry collection · 1964

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  29. Love Respelt

    poetry collection · 1965

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  30. Collected Poems 1965

    poetry collection · 1965

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  31. Poems 1965–1968

    poetry collection · 1968

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  32. Beyond Giving

    poetry collection · 1969

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  33. Poems about Love

    poetry collection · 1969

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  34. Poems 1968–1970

    poetry collection · 1970

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  35. The Green Sailed Vessel

    poetry collection · 1971

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  36. Deyá: A Portfolio of Five Poems and Lithographs

    poetry portfolio · 1972

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  37. Poems 1970–1972

    poetry collection · 1972

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  38. Timeless Meeting

    poetry collection · 1973

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  39. At the Gate

    poetry collection · 1974

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  40. Collected Poems 1975

    poetry collection · 1975

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  41. New Collected Poems

    poetry collection · 1977

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  42. Twin to Twin

    poetry collection · 1977

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  43. Advice to Colonel Valentine

    poetry collection · 1979

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  44. In the Wilderness

    poetry collection · 1979

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  45. Eleven Songs

    poetry collection · 1983

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  46. Yesterday Only and Other Poems

    poetry collection · 2000

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Plays (1)
  1. Mammon

    play · 1964

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Other (15)
  1. John Kemp's Wager

    ballad opera · 1925

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  2. The Marmosite's Miscellany

    miscellany · 1925

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  3. The English Ballad

    ballads · 1927

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  4. But It Still Goes On

    miscellany · 1930

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  5. The Real David Copperfield

    rewrite · 1933

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  6. Cover of The Reader Over Your Shoulder
    The Reader Over Your Shoulder

    prose handbook · 1943

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  7. Cover of Occupation: Writer
    Occupation: Writer

    miscellany · 1950

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  8. Cover of The Nazarene Gospel Restored
    The Nazarene Gospel Restored

    biblical studies · 1953

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  9. Cover of The Greek Myths
    The Greek Myths

    mythology · 1955

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  10. Adam's Rib

    biblical studies · 1955

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  11. Jesus in Rome

    historical conjecture · 1957

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  12. 5 Pens in Hand

    miscellany · 1958

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  13. Food for Centaurs

    miscellany · 1960

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    Greek Gods and Heroes

    mythology · 1960

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  15. The Hebrew Myths

    mythology · 1964

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