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Lead book review

Ménage à quatre with Robert Graves

18 August 2018

9:00 AM

18 August 2018

9:00 AM

‘I have a very poor opinion of other people’s opinion of me — though I am fairly happy in my own conceit — and always surprised to find that anyone likes my work or character.’ This admission by Robert Graves — made to his then friend Siegfried Sassoon in the mid-1920s — goes to the heart of his character as a man and a poet.

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