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    Menage a quatre: why most poetic biopics are romantic fiction

    Apr 28, 2023 4 minutes

    How do you make the life of a poet work on screen? It helps if they had scandalous personal lives (Rimbaud and Verlaine in Total Eclipse, Dylan Thomas in Last Call and The Edge of Love). Robert Graves was last seen on the sidelines of Terence Davies’s biopic as the friend of the first world war poet Siegfried Sassoon (Benediction). Now the tables are turned, with a cameo of Sassoon in a film about the early career of the man who would go on to bag the prize of being anointed poet laureate.

    Graves is an unfashionable figure today, known chiefly through , the TV serialisation of two of his novels,, reluctantly had to excise from his script because none of the show dogs had yet been born in the years he chose to cover.

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