Andrew Motion

In two minds | 16 August 2018

The poet’s strange combination of devotion and detachment was most evident in his relationships with his wife, his mistress and the poet Geoffrey Phibbs

  • Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-Bye to All That, 1895–1929

    Jean Moorcroft Wilson

    Bloomsbury, pp. 461

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