Playboy Interview: Robert Graves

December, 1970

Playboy Interview: Robert GravesThe long and distinguished career of Robert Graves began where it might well have ended--in the trenches of France in 1915, when a shellburst nearly emasculated him, "clinically killing me." But Graves obviously resurrected himself and, in the intervening 55 years, has become a famous, sometimes notorious poet, critic, translator, mythologizer and commentator on the passing scene. Now 75, Graves spans our century. He has explored almost all its dimension...