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Acknowledgements First of all, my heartfelt gratitude undoubtedly goes to Associate Professor Lü Aijing, my supervisor for my MA. Program in Hunan University of Science and Technology, who has supervised this project from minute details to the larger picture with a master poet‘s insight, a scholar‘s keen intellect, and great personal compassion. She guided and enriched my work with insight, subtlety, and erudition. I am deeply grateful to Professor Zeng Yanyu, Associate Professor Ling Jian‘e, and Associate Professor Wang Taohua for their instructive lectures, enlightening seminars and unselfish help. They provided me a solid foundation in English language and literature, as well as a fine example of what it means to be a scholar. I would like to thank my classmates Liu Tingitng and Zhou Lisha for their warm friendship and critical advice. In many ways, they stimulated me with their conversations throughout the years and were careful readers of the dissertation-in-progress. My thanks are also extended to those whose works in various forms are quoted or referred to in this thesis. Finally, this space seems inadequate to acknowledge the debt owed to my family and my boyfriend. Without their support, love and patience, the accomplishment of the present endeavor would be hardly possible. -i- Abstract Robert von Ranke Graves, a famous poet, translator and novelist in the 20th century, was hailed as England‘s ―greatest living poet‖ by W. H. Auden in 1962. In 1968, he received the Queen‘s Gold Medal for poetry. He was regarded as a typical poet of portraying Englishness by the most poets of