January 12 - ​Robert Graves

​Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon, a suburb of London. Graves was known as a poet, lecturer, and novelist. He was also known as a classicist and a mythographer. Perhaps his first known and revered poems were the poems Groves wrote behind the lines in World War One. He later became known as one of the most superb English language 'Love' poets. He then became recognized as one of the finest love poets writing in the English language.

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The poem I’m reading today is “A Dead Boche”. Note that the word “Boche” refers to a German soldier.

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