7 December 1985. Acclaimed writer and poet, Robert Graves, died (aged 90). He produced more than 140 works in his lifetime, including collections of poems, translations of Greek myths, the famous novel, I Claudius, and his famous memoir of his early life, Good-Bye to All That. https://t.co/53rmb4gbFy

@friede I knew journalists Paul Moor who knew Robert Graves who in Good Bye to All That traces his own connection through Swinburne and WS Landor to Samuel Johnson. I plan on asking for an introduction in the afterlife.

robert graves is at least aware of his class status and gayness (astonishingly open about it actually) and is absolutely bone dry deadpan about everything; no wonder "good-bye to all that" became such a widely adopted phrase