GRAVES, ROBERT RANKE (1895 ), English poet and author, the son of A. P. Graves, the Irish song-writer, author of "Father O'Flynn." Robert Graves was educated at Charter house, and at St. John's college, Cambridge. During the World War he served in France with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and was seriously wounded on the Somme. He has published since 1915 several volumes of poetry, and critical essays.
His Collected Poems were published in 1927. His prose works include :On English Poetry (1921) ; the Meaning of Dreams (1924) ; Poetic Unreason (1925) ; Contemporary Technique of Poetry (1925).