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Historical person
1895–1985
Robert Graves was a British poet, soldier, novelist and classical scholar. His experience on the Western Front shaped his memoir Goodbye to All That and much of his poetry, while later historical novels such as I, Claudius brought ancient Rome to a broad modern readership.
In Pat Barker’s Regeneration, Robert Graves, Arthur John Brock and other historical figures share the narrative with invented patients and civilians, while Rivers’s humane methods are contrasted with Lewis Yealland’s coercive electrical treatment of enlisted men.
Series
The Regeneration Trilogy follows soldiers, doctors, poets and civilians during the final two years of the First World War. Its central relationship is between the neurologist and army psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers and the fictional working-class officer Billy Prior, while Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and…
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