I'm pretty much where Bill is on the Graves. The Laura Riding story is weird city, but I do like things about that book, and many of Graves's poems as well.
But Graves didn't grasp that muses come in many shades of light and dark. The "All saints revile her" part of his poem would have surprised Dante quite a bit. Apollo's getting such short shrift is a post-Nietzsche, post-Freud reflex. Apollo's provenance in the myths is much more than reason. He played a harp. And poets know that number and language have a hidden bond.
So Graves was myopic or narrow in his a-musement. He didn't see that Logos is not merely logical, and that inspiration is not only hell, but hell, heaven, and everything in between.
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