Sherry S. (SherryKaraoke) - , reviewed on 4/15/2010 + 36 more book reviews

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A brilliant evocation of the experiences of the author before and during and shortly after World War I. He seems to have known everybody from John Masefield to Siegfried Sassoon to T.E. Lawrence and writes cogently about a world in which poetry was a widespread and honored form of expression. Graves, probably most familiar in America as the author of I, Claudius, describes the terrible conditions of trench warfare and the resulting cynicism that pervades postwar Europe as a result.

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