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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Robert Graves
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(1895–1985) Poet and author of a wide variety of prose works. He expounded his view of the poet in The White Goddess (1948), in which he argues that poetry derives from a feminine principle which has been suppressed in civilization by male values of reason and logic. The directness of his prose was strikingly seen in his early autobiography, *Goodbye to All That (1929). Of his many historical novels the first, *I, Claudius (1934), remains the best known. For much of his life he lived in Majorca.
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