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Written in 1925, My Head! My Head! was Robert Graves's first book - a retelling of the story of Elisha and the Shunamite girl. Graves amplifies the simple Old Testament account into a series of dramatic encounters between the wandering prophet and his inquisitive, quick-witted hostess, who, by skilful questioning, awards from Elisha the secret religious record of historical Israel and the real account of the patriarch Moses. Graves uses the prolonged dialogue of Elisha and Jochebed to sophisticated his own unorthodox theory of the roots of primitive Judaism and the role of Moses in the eventual triumph of the cult of Jahweh over the other desert religions of the time. Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 - 7 December 1985) was an British poet and novelist, scholar, translator and writer of antiquity, specialising in Classical Greece and Rome. During his extended life he produced more than 140 works. Graves's translations and ground breaking analysis and interpretations of the Greek common myths, the memoir of his early on life, Good-bye to All That, and his speculative study of poetic motivation, The White Goddess, have never been out of print out. Graves gained his living by writing popular historical novels, including I, Claudius (for which he was given the Adam Tait African american Memorial Reward), Ruler Jesus, The Golden Fleece and Matter Belisarius. He was elected Teacher of Poetry at Oxford in 1961 and made an honorary fellow of St John's School, Oxford, in 1971.
