Background
Kersnowski, Frank Louis was born on May 6, 1934 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
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(Conversations with Robert Graves) Author: Frank L Kersnowski published on (November, 1989)
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The Early Poetry of Robert Graves: The Goddess Beckons (Literary Modernism) By Kersnowski, Frank L ( Author ) Paperback 2010
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The Early Poetry of Robert Graves: The Goddess Beckons (Literary Modernism)
( Like many men of his generation, poet Robert Graves was...)
Like many men of his generation, poet Robert Graves was indelibly marked by his experience of trench warfare in World War I. The horrific battles in which he fought and his guilt over surviving when so many perished left Graves shell-shocked and disoriented, desperately seeking a way to bridge the rupture between his conventional upbringing and the uncertainties of postwar British society. In this study of Graves's early poetry, Frank Kersnowski explores how his war neurosis opened a door into the unconscious for Graves and led him to reject the essential components of the Western idea of reality—reason and predictability. In particular, Kersnowski traces the emergence in Graves's early poems of a figure he later called "The White Goddess," a being at once terrifying and glorious, who sustains life and inspires poetry. Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven by the purpose of celebrating and explaining this deity and her matriarchy.
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- John Montague (The Irish writers series) (Briefly reviews the contemporary Irish writer's them...)
- Conversations With Robert Graves (Literary Conversations Series) (Interviews reveal the British writer's attitudes tow...)
Frank Louis Kersnowski
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Bachelor, University Tennessee, 1957. Master of Arts, University Tennessee, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, University Kansas, 1963.
Career
Assistant professor Ohio University, Athens, 1962-1964. From assistant professor to professor English, Trinity University, San Antonio, 1964—2002, research professor, since 2002.
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Works
book
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John Montague (The Irish writers series)
(Briefly reviews the contemporary Irish writer's thematic ...)
- The Early Poetry of Robert Graves: The Goddess Beckons (Literary Modernism) By Kersnowski, Frank L ( Author ) Paperback 2010
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The Early Poetry of Robert Graves: The Goddess Beckons (Literary Modernism)
( Like many men of his generation, poet Robert Graves was...)
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Conversations With Robert Graves (Literary Conversations Series)
(Interviews reveal the British writer's attitudes towards ...)
- (Conversations with Robert Graves) Author: Frank L Kersnowski published on (November, 1989)
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John Montague (The Irish writers series)
Membership
Member Lawrence Durrell Society (president 1987-1990), Hemingway Society.
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Married Alice Hughes, May 11, 1984. 1 child, Maud Louise, Kersnowski-Sachs;grand daughter Lydia Marilyn Sachs.
