What is Robert Graves?
{{Infobox person | name = Robert Graves | image =Robert graves-1492549303 (cropped).JPG | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = Robert von Ranke Graves | birth_date = {{birth date|1895|07|24|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Wimbledon, London]], England | death_date = {{death date and age|1985|12|07|1895|07|24|df=y}} | death_place = Deià, [[Majorca]], Spain | occupation = Novelist, poet, soldier | nationality = British }} [[File:Robert Graves 1929.jpg|thumb|Robert Graves (1929)]] '''Robert von Ranke Graves''' (also known as '''Robert Ranke Graves''' and most commonly '''Robert Graves'''; 24 July 1895&nbsp;– 7 December 1985)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp01882 |title=National Portrait Gallery&nbsp;— Person&nbsp;— Robert Ranke Graves |publisher=Npg.org.uk |access-date=19 December 2010}}</ref> was an English [[poet]], [[novel]]ist, [[critic]] and [[Classics|classicist]]. He wrote more than 140 works. He wrote poems about [[Greek mythology|Greek myths]] and [[historical novel]]s. Many of his novels were set in [[ancient Rome]] or were about stories from Greek myths. He also wrote about Greek myths and translated them into English.<ref>[http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_graves_whitegoddess.html Review of ''The White Goddess -- A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411031247/http://greenmanreview.com/book/book_graves_whitegoddess.html |date=2008-04-11 }}.</ref><ref>James Tait Black Prize winners: [http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/people/tait-black/fiction Previous winners&nbsp;– fiction] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927024752/http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/people/tait-black/fiction |date=2011-09-27 }}</ref> ==Life== Graves was born in [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]], now part of [[London]]. He was the third of five children. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931). He came from an [[Irish people|Irish]] family. His mother was Amalie von Ranke (1857–1951). She came from a German family. Robert went