Entertainment Nov 20, 2009
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Camille Paglia Oct 23, 2009
Easily better than "Spartacus" (although it was hard to beat the cynical Crassus) or "The Robe" (although Caligula was done as well as well as Robert Graves could have ever visualized). Al Handa. (Salon)
Anthony Lane: “The Shout,” at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Oct 12, 2009
It comes from a tale by Robert Graves. The music is by two members of Genesis. (New Yorker)
Boris Johnson on Blair as Europe president Oct 6, 2009
" But there isn't a constitution is there????? Geoff Turner on October 05, 2009 at 08:10 AM I watched what severely restricted sections of the Treaty were permitted to be debated by MPs in the house of commons before the treaty was rammed through just as so much bad legislation is rammed through. A pitifully small group of MPs bothered to turn up, making it clear they thought it a pointless waste of their time, and most just appeared in time to vote as ordered by the whips, despite this being an... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Darwinian Struggle: A Poet Felled by Scandal May 27, 2009
On May 16, Padel was named Oxford University's Professor of Poetry, following in the footsteps of such literary giants as Matthew Arnold, Cecil Day-Lewis, W.H. Auden, Robert Graves and Seamus Heaney. Yet even in this illustrious company, there was something that distinguished Padel from the crowd: she was the first woman to win election to the five-year post since its creation in 1708. (Time.com)
Ian M. Banks May 3, 2009
They re not all literary, but: Brian Aldiss, Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett (Watt and Murphy in particular), Saul Bellow, Alfred Bester (especially Tiger, Tiger), Enid Blyton, Jorge Luis Borges, John Brunner (especially Stand On Zanzibar), Noam Chomsky, Arthur C. Clarke, Leonard Cohen (Beautiful Losers and The Favourite Game), Ivor Cutler (Life in a Scotch Sitting Room), Samuel Delaney, T. S. Eliot (especially The Waste Land), Gunter Grass (the early works, especially The Tin Drum), Robert Graves,... (Suite101.com)
Out of Africa Apr 6, 2009
My favourite writers are those who have written a lot and have probably gone to the great writing desk in the big blue yonder, but up there would be CS Forster, John Steinbeck - he had so much humour and pathos and understanding of people in distress - Brian Patrick O'Brien and Robert Graves. I also love to discover someone I didn't know about before. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
In his words Mar 20, 2009
Perhaps following the advice of poet Robert Graves who wrote, There s no money in poetry, but there s no poetry in money, either there is no charge to attend the reading. Contact Greg Johnson at or 352-2269. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
