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Robert Graves' "Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist"
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Robert Graves' "Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist"

Robert Graves on magical women – archive, 1968

Today’s poem is a cautionary tale about achieving popular successes. Happy reading.


“Mark Ford summarized Graves’s ‘wholesale rejection of 20th-century civilization and complete submission to the capricious demands of the Goddess’ with a quote from The White Goddess: ‘Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles; which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric.’”

-via Poetry Foundation

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