Robert Graves described poetry as his ruling passion and for him love was "the main theme and origin of true poems". In this volume his poems appear without critical apparatus or commentary in an attempt to represent, in its purest form, the achievement of his 70 productive years.

Robert Graves described poetry as his ruling passion and for him love was "the main theme and origin of true poems". In this volume his poems appear without critical apparatus or commentary in an attempt to represent, in its purest form, the achievement of his 70 productive years.