Definition of Robert Graves

1. Noun. English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985).

Exact synonyms: Graves, Robert Ranke Graves
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Robert Graves

Robert Clive
Robert Curl
Robert De Niro
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Peary
Robert E Lee's Birthday
Robert E Lee Day
Robert Edward Lee
Robert Edwin Peary
Robert Emmet Sherwood
Robert F. Curl
Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
Robert Frost
Robert Fulton
Robert Graves (current term)
Robert Gray
Robert Herrick
Robert Hooke
Robert Hutchings Goddard
Robert I
Robert James Fischer
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
Robert Joffrey
Robert King Merton
Robert Koch
Robert Lee Frost
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Lowell

Literary usage of Robert Graves

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Book of Modern British Verse by William Stanley Braithwaite (1919)
"III Back Robert Graves THEY ask me where I've been, And what I've done and seen. But what can I reply Who know it wasn'tI, But some one just like me, ..."

2. Junior High School Literature by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck (1920)
"THE ASSAULT HEROIC Robert Graves Down in the mud I lay, Tired out by my long day . . . Five sleepless days and nights . . . Dream-snatched, and set me where ..."

3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1894)
"... in giving rise to the morbid process in the brain? ART. III.—Remarks on the Water Supply in Dublin in 1890 and 1894.' By WILLIAM Robert Graves, ..."

4. Poems of the War and the Peace by Sterling Andrus Leonard (1921)
"The music ceased, and the red sunset flare Was blood about his head as he stood there. Robert Graves MORITURI TE SALUTANT ..."

5. A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War, 1914-1919 by George Herbert Clarke (1919)
"Robert Graves ON A TROOPSHIP, 1915 FAREWELL! the village leaning to the hill, And all the cawing rooks that homeward fly; The bees; the drowsy anthem of the ..."

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