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Robert Graves' "Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist"

Robert Graves' "Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist"

The Daily Poem · Sean Johnson

July 18, 20252m 59s

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Show Notes

Today’s poem is a cautionary tale about achieving popular successes. Happy reading.

“Mark Ford summarized Graves’s ‘wholesale rejection of 20th-century civilization and complete submission to the capricious demands of the Goddess’ with a quote from The White Goddess: ‘Since the age of 15 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.’”

-via Poetry Foundation



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