Epistemological Ambiguity in The Earlier Poetry of Robert Graves

Abstract

Whenever a poem reads memorably, this is almost always because a living Muse has directed its need and, however individual the poet's choice of words and rhythms. impressed her secret image on them. If such an image is unapparent. I question the poem's validity, which prevents me from ever feeling the least authorial pride. Who can regard himself as the originator of lines which move readers no less than he was himself moved to write them? Granted, numerous poems of simple male parentage (the Apollonian sort) are widely honoured; but they do not concern me.3