Robert Graves interview | Poet | Writer | Today | 1969
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2017
- A fascinating interview with celebrated Poet and Writer, Robert Graves.
First shown: 22/10/1969
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I love him at this great distance. His talent, emotional intelligence & depth of character are so grand.
What a gentleman and. Poet, scholer, soldier inspiration...words of advice in light of death never fear or be anyone's stooge...I Claudius is a compelling vision in an age today when it's easy to eschew books and written stories
Never seen Mr Graves on film before. Thanks for posting. Absolutely riveting.
This woman is nearly as interesting as Graves himself. She performs her job exquisitely in an object lesson suitable for any interviewer. You get the impression of brilliance but she doesn't stoop to showing it off. Clever, wise, and poised to a degree shocking for her age, and authentic enough to throw some authenticity away by cultivating a very artificial appearance. All in all seemingly a whole person, again nearly as much as Graves, and that's saying a lot.
That woman, cleverness, great legs and other parts on display..typical late 60,s.... and him the relic of a bygone age of public schoolboys. What a great combination. He comes across so well, so ’real’ as he says. Magic for me is being expanded, self enquiring...the crisis he talks about is happening now.
Martin Amis has a story that he and his raffish friends in their gap year looked him up on Mallorca and one wag, as they looked at the sea (frying on acid), gazed up and ordered Graves to "make that cloud disappear." Graves IS a god upon this earth. Goodbye and the Claudius novels AND a short story called The Shout are utter utter masterpieces. love him to bits.
In a perfect universe, Graves would have played the part of Claudius himself. I can see it. Feel it.
Sometimes I find it hard to watch an interview with a man I have so much respect for. I really wish the questions had been more centred on his gift for writing. I’m not disappointed by his voice which immediately conveys someone of education and civilisation, and that’s not to sound snobby at all. The fact is, after reading I Claudius there is little I’ve found in historical fiction to compare with Graves.
The man lives! Thanks for posting.... big fan of the White Goddess and I Claudius!
Interviewer: "When you were in the trenches, was there one thing you missed the most?"
Mr Graves is a lot more at ease in this interview compared to others. Could be due to the style of the interviewer but he reacts better. In many interviews he is defensive and spars with them linguistically. Towering intellect.
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"if you can explain Graves let me know" another fine quote. SF/
This is such a precious interview!
"All I object to with people [men] wearing their hair long is that they wear the wrong hats with them; they should wear big hats, like the Cavaliers wear them." Robert Graves puts in proper perspective the ferocious debate in the 1960s over men's hair. Only the guys in the ten-gallons got it right.
performing miracles in the public service: definition of love
This interview is very special in what is being represented under the surface. I hope when I am Graves age I can handle it with this much poise. Although this interview is a delight there is a painful undertone that pulls and tugs at the chest. I would compare it to another painful realization a man of my age and experience has been glimpsing of late. And that is just as much as I came to appreciate literature and this art form since my late teens in the late eighties, I now understand that the writers I've been exploring were a dieing breed. A dieing time. Literally. You do in fact realize dear cousins that Rock N Roll has physically left the building in the past 5 yrs dont you? They died. About 6 months ago I claimed we were becoming something and about to be living in a world not worth living in . I certainly didn't expect this. So,....what's it gonna be then eh? The price we will be paying for peace oh my brothers and only friends is a world of castration if not perpetual infancy. Whoops, went off the rails there again.
A wonderful glimpse into a bygone age.
Kippers, love em.
I've just finished reading "Good-bye to all that"; surprising to see that it has not been dramatized(movie).