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Robert von Ranke Graves is buried at Deyá Church on the Island of Majorca.
(See map...ref no. 6) The church and its tiny cemetery are located at the
top of the village, on a ledge above a deep gorge. There is no gravestone
- only a small block of concrete into which his name and dates
were scratched. In 1946 Graves moved back to Ca Na Lluny in Deyá with his second wife Beryl
Hodge. (He had previously lived here with the American poet Laura Riding.) With the exception of occasional trips abroad, he lived on
the island until his death in 1985.
Robert Graves
Gravestone of Robert Graves
Between 1950-74 Graves had a string of relationships with younger
women - his 'muses'- who inspired him to write some of the finest love poetry of the
20th century.
Graves was professor of poetry at Oxford University from 1961-1966.
Graves is also remembered for his unorthodox historical
novels such as I, Claudius (1934), his autobiography Good-bye
to All That (1929) and his study of poetic inspiration - The
White Goddess (1948).
From 1974 onwards his mental and physical health declined and he
died on 7 December 1985.
See also
Georgian poets
and Poets on Poetry'.
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