平生
格雷夫斯生於倫敦，曾在第一次世界大戰中服役，之後從牛津大學畢業。他在開羅大學教了一年英語，後來曾一度在西班牙的馬略卡島定居。格雷夫斯從1961到1966年間任牛津大學的詩歌學教授。
作品風格
羅伯特·格雷夫斯是20世紀英國文學史上一位極具創新精神的詩人。他的戰爭詩獨具特色,充分展示了詩人特有的才情和睿智. 也寫小說、雜文、文學批評和神化研究作品，並翻譯文學經典。他最初的作品是一些譴責第一次世界大戰對生命的摧殘的詩歌。他的自傳《向一切告別》（1929年）講述了他在一戰中的經歷。
作品
小說《耶穌王》（1946年）是一部非傳統歷史小說。他後來的大部分詩作都是愛情抒情詩。他的古羅馬帝國三部曲《我，克勞迪斯》（I， Claudius）、《克勞迪斯神和他的妻子梅薩利納》（Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina）、《貝利薩里烏斯伯爵》（Count Belisarius）是現代歷史小說經典之作，現實主義的表現手法使生活在古代的人物具有親近感，同時又保持了歷史性。
詩歌《火盆旁》（1916年）、《詩集1938–1945年》（1946年）、《詩集》（1959年）、《新詩集》（1977年）。神話研究作品——《白仙女》（1947年）、《希臘神話》（1955年）。隨筆——《肩負讀者》（The Reader over Your Shoulder）（1943年，與艾倫·霍奇合著）。
Over the brazier. London: William Heinemann, 1923; New York: Alfred. A. Knopf, 1923.
* The Feather Bed. Richmond, Surrey: Hogarth Press, 1923.
* Mock Beggar Hall. London: Hogarth Press, 1924.
* Welchmans Hose. London: The Fleuron, 1925.
* Poems. London: Ernest Benn, 1925.
* The Marmosites Miscellany (as John Doyle). London: Hogarth Press, 1925.
* Poems (1914-1926). London: William Heinemann, 1927; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1929.
* Poems (1914-1927). London: William Heinemann
* To Whom Else? Deyá, Majorca: Seizin Press, 1931.
* Poems 1930-1933. London: Arthur Barker, 1933.
* Collected Poems. London: Cassell, 1938; New York: Random House, 1938.
* No More Ghosts: Selected Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1940.
* Work in Hand, with Norman Cameron and Alan Hodge. London: Hogarth Press, 1942.
* Poems. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1943.
* Poems 1938-1945. London: Cassell, 1945; New York: Creative Age Press, 1946.
* Collected Poems (1914-1947). London: Cassell, 1948.
* Poems and Satires. London: Cassell, 1951.
* Poems 1953. London: Cassell, 1953.
* Collected Poems 1955. New York: Doubleday, 1955.
* Poems Selected by Himself. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957; rev. 1961, 1966, 1972, 1978.
* The Poems of Robert Graves. New York: Doubleday, 1958.
* Collected Poems 1959. London: Cassell, 1959.
* The Penny Fiddle: Poems for Children. London: Cassell, 1960; New York: Doubleday, 1961.
* More Poems 1961. London: Cassell, 1961.
* Collected Poems. New York: Doubleday, 1961.
* New Poems 1962. London: Cassell, 1962; as New Poems. New York: Doubleday, 1963.
* The More Deserving Cases: Eighteen Old Poems for Reconsideration. Marlborough: Marlborough College Press, 1962.
* Man Does, Woman Is. London: Cassell, 1964; New York: Doubleday, 1964.
* Ann at Highwood Hall: Poems for Children. London: Cassell, 1964.
* Love Respelt. London: Cassell, 1965; New York: Doubleday, 1966.
* One Hard Look 1965
* Collected Poems 1965. London: Cassell, 1965.
* Seventeen Poems Missing from 'Love Respelt'. privately printed, 1966.
* colophon to 'Love Respelt'. Privately printed, 1967.
* Poems 1965-1968. London: Cassell, 1968; New York: Doubleday, 1969.
* Poems About Love. London: Cassell, 1969; New York: Doubleday, 1969.
* Love Respelt Again. New York: Doubleday, 1969.
* Beyond Giving. privately printed, 1969.
* Poems 1968-1970. London: Cassell, 1970; New York: Doubleday, 1971.
* The Green-Sailed Vessel. privately printed, 1971.
* Poems: Abridged for Dolls and Princes. London: Cassell, 1971.
* Poems 1970-1972. London: Cassell, 1972; New York: Doubleday, 1973.
* Deyá, A Portfolio. London: Motif Editions, 1972.
* timeless Meeting: Poems. privately printed, 1973.
* At the Gate. privately printed, London, 1974.
* Collected Poems 1975. London: Cassell, 1975.
* New Collected Poems. New York: Doubleday, 1977.
* Selected Poems. ed Paul O'Prey. London: Penguin, 1986
* The centenary Selected Poems. ed. Patrick Quinn. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1995.
* Complete Poems Volume 1. ed. Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1995.
* Complete Poems Volume 2. ed. Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1996.
* Complete Poems Volume 3. ed. Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1999.
* The Complete Poems in One Volume ed. Beryl Graves and Dunstan Ward. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2000.
Poems - individual
* "The Death Room" The New Yorker 25/50 (4 February 1950) : 35
Fiction
* My Head! My Head!. London: Sucker, 1925; Alfred. A. Knopf, New York, 1925.
* The Shout. London: Mathews & Marrot, 1929.
* No decency Left (with Laura Riding) (as Barbara Rich). London: Jonathan Cape, 1932.
* The Real David Copperfield. London: Arthur Barker, 1933; as David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, Condensed by Robert Graves, ed. M. P. Paine. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1934.
* I, Claudius. London: Arthur Barker, 1934; New York: Smith & Haas, 1934.
o Sequel: Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina. London: Arthur Barker, 1934; New York: Smith & Haas, 1935.
* Antigua, Penny, puce. Deyá, Majorca/London: Seizin Press/Constable, 1936; New York: Random House, 1937.
* Count Belisarius. London: Cassell, 1938: Random House, New York, 1938.
* Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth. London: Methuen, 1940; as Sergeant Lamb's America. New York: Random House, 1940.
o Sequel: Proceed, Sergeant Lamb. London: Methuen, 1941; New York: Random House, 1941.
* The Story of Marie Powell: Wife to Mr. Milton. London: Cassell, 1943; as Wife to Mr Milton: The Story of Marie Powell. New York: Creative Age Press, 1944.
* The Golden Fleece. London: Cassell, 1944; as Hercules, My shipmate, New York: Creative Age Press, 1945.
* King Jesus. New York: Creative Age Press, 1946; London: Cassell, 1946.
* Watch the North Wind Rise. New York: Creative Age Press, 1949; as Seven Days in New Crete. London: Cassell, 1949.
* The Islands of Unwisdom. New York: Doubleday, 1949; as The Isles of Unwisdom. London: Cassell, 1950.
* Homer's Daughter. London: Cassell, 1955; New York: Doubleday, 1955.
* Catacrok! Mostly Stories, Mostly Funny. London: Cassell, 1956.
* They Hanged My saintly Billy. London: Cassell, 1957; New York: Doubleday, 1957.
* Collected Short Stories. Doubleday: New York, 1964; Cassell, London, 1965.
* An Ancient Castle. London: Peter Owen, 1980.
Other work
* On English Poetry. New York: Alfred. A. Knopf, 1922; London: Heinemann, 1922.
* The Meaning of Dreams. London: Cecil Palmer, 1924; New York: Greenberg, 1925.
* Poetic unreason and Other Studies. London: Cecil Palmer, 1925.
* Contemporary Techniques of Poetry: A Political Analogy. London: Hogarth Press, 1925.
* Another Future of Poetry. London: Hogarth Press, 1926.
* Impenetrability or The Proper Habit of English. London: Hogarth Press, 1927.
* The English Ballad: A Short Critical Survey. London: Ernest Benn, 1927; revised as English and Scottish Ballads. London: William Heinemann, 1957; New York: Macmillan, 1957.
* Lars Porsena or The Future of Swearing and Improper Language. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1927; E.P. Dutton, New York, 1927; revised as The Future of Swearing and Improper Language. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1936.
* A Survey of Modernist Poetry (with Laura Riding). London: William Heinemann, 1927; New York: Doubleday, 1928.
* Lawrence and the Arabs. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927; as Lawrence and the Arabian Adventure. New York: Doubleday, 1928.
* A Pamphlet Against Anthologies (with Laura Riding). London: Jonathan Cape, 1928; as Against Anthologies. New York: Doubleday, 1928.
* Mrs. Fisher or The Future of Humour. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1928.
* Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929; New York: Jonathan Cape and Smith, 1930; rev., New York: Doubleday, 1957; London: Cassell, 1957; Penguin: Harmondsworth, 1960.
* But It Still Goes On: An Accumulation. London: Jonathan Cape, 1930; New York: Jonathan Cape and Smith, 1931.
* T. E. Lawrence to His biographer Robert Graves. New York: Doubleday, 1938; London: Faber & Faber, 1939.
* The Long Weekend (with Alan Hodge). London: Faber & Faber, 1940; New York: Macmillan, 1941.
* The Reader Over Your Shoulder (with Alan Hodge). London: Jonathan Cape, 1943; New York: Macmillan, 1943.
* The White Goddess. London: Faber & Faber, 1948; New York: Creative Age Press, 1948; rev., London: Faber & Faber, 1952, 1961; New York: Alfred. A. Knopf, 1958.
* The Common asphodel: Collected Essays on Poetry 1922-1949. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949.
* Occupation: Writer. New York: Creative Age Press, 1950; London: Cassell, 1951.
* The Nazarene Gospel Restored (with Joshua Podro). London: Cassell, 1953; New York: Doubleday, 1954.
* The Greek Myths. London: Penguin, 1955; Baltimore: Penguin, 1955.
* The Crowning Privilege: The Clark Lectures, 1954-1955. London: Cassell, 1955; New York: Doubleday, 1956.
* Adam's Rib. London: Trianon Press, 1955; New York: Yoseloff, 1958.
* Jesus in Rome (with Joshua Podro). London: Cassell, 1957.
* Steps. London: Cassell, 1958.
* 5 Pens in Hand. New York: Doubleday, 1958.
* Food for Centaurs. New York: Doubleday, 1960.
* Greek Gods and Heroes. New York: Doubleday, 1960; as Myths of Ancient Greece. London: Cassell, 1961.
* Selected Poetry and Prose (ed. James Reeves). London: Hutchinson, 1961.
* Oxford Addresses on Poetry. London: Cassell, 1962; New York: Doubleday, 1962.
* The Siege and Fall of Troy. London: Cassell, 1962; New York: Doubleday, 1963.
* The Big Green Book. New York: Crowell Collier, 1962; Penguin: Harmondsworth, 1978. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
* Hebrew Myths. The Book of Genesis (with Raphael Patai). New York: Doubleday, 1964; London: Cassell, 1964.
* Majorca Observed. London: Cassell, 1965; New York: Doubleday, 1965.
* Mammon and the Black Goddess. London: Cassell, 1965; New York: Doubleday, 1965.
* Two Wise Children. New York: Harlin Quist, 1966; London: Harlin Quist, 1967.
* The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam (with Omar Ali-Shah). London: Cassell, 1967.
* Poetic Craft and Principle. London: Cassell, 1967.
* The Poor Boy Who Followed His Star. London: Cassell, 1968; New York: Doubleday, 1969.
* Greek Myths and Legends. London: Cassell, 1968.
* The Crane Bag. London: Cassell, 1969.
* On Poetry: Collected Talks and Essays. New York: Doubleday, 1969.
* Difficult Questions, Easy Answers. London: Cassell, 1972; New York: Doubleday, 1973.
* In Broken Images: Selected Letters 1914-1946. ed Paul O'Prey. London: Hutchinson, 1982
* Between Moon and Moon: Selected Letters 1946-1972. ed Paul O'Prey. London: Hutchinson, 1984
* Collected Writings on Poetry. ed. Paul O'Prey, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1995.
* Complete Short Stories. ed Lucia Graves, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1995.
* Some Speculations on Literature, History, and Religion. ed Patrick Quinn, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2000.
