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Robert Graves  (1895-1985);Robert Graves;Robert Graves;Robert Graves;According to Graves, women and poets are natural allies. Abstract reasoning is a predominantly male field of thought, and rational schooling discourages intuitive thought. Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Reason fails to prompt the writing of original poems, and shows no spark of humor or religious feeling. Philosophy, under the name of abstract reasoning, is antipoetic. ;In the 1940s Graves became interested in myths and history. Studies of goddess lore led him also reinterpret the genealogy of Jesus, and rewrite the Gospels. In the historical novel King Jesus (1946) he presented Jesus as a sage and poet, and rejected the mystical Virgin Birth doctrine. From 1961 to 1966 Graves was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford - he was 66 when he delivered his first lecture in this office. ;Robert Graves;Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles; which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric. ~ Robert Graves (source); Idolization/ worship of women ;Graves liked Frost, John Crowe Ransom, and E. E. Cummings (his American discoveries); found some redeeming qualities in Eliot and Dylan Thomas; found no redeeming qualities in Yeats, Pound, or Auden. ;The White Goddess;In that period, the sea-trading Minoans carried their religion from their ports in the Mediterranean as far as Ireland in the west; and to tropical Asia in the east. Of the goddess-temples founded, the highest may have been that of Sappho on the island of Lesbos. The goddess-temples are of great importance to scholars, for they are the source of the alphabet we use; the musical scales we use, of the concept of poetry, of the calendar, of astronomy and hist