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[Anonymous No.18341367]

>Graves is hard
Is there a bigger, better pleb filter than Robert Graves?

[Anonymous No.18341404]

I, Claudius is literally YA.

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[Anonymous No.18341492]

>>18341404
His poetry does present challenges for the intellectually challenged.
He is a good writer worth exploring.

[Anonymous No.18341760]

>>18341367
I translated two of his poems. Very fine poet. George Steiner admired it greatly.

[Anonymous No.18342819]

>>18341367
He's not at all like most of the rest of the 20th century and that's a good thing. (He's also mad as a hatter, but that's OK.)

NOT TO SLEEP
Robert Graves

Not to sleep all the night long, for pure joy,
Counting no sheep and careless of chimes,
Welcoming the dawn confabulation
Of birds, her children, who discuss idly
Fanciful details of the promised coming —
Will she be wearing red, or russet, or blue,
Or pure white? — whatever she wears, glorious:
Not to sleep all the night long, for pure joy,
This is given to a few but at last to me,
So that when I laugh and stretch and leap from bed
I shall glide downstairs, my feet brushing the carpet
In courtesy to civilized progression,
Though, did I wish, I could soar through the open window
And perch on a branch above, acceptable ally
Of the birds still alert, grumbling gently together.