Robert Graves described poetry as his ruling passion and for him love was the main theme and origin of true poems. He created a mythology where love, fear, fantasy and the supernatural play an essential role. Combining realism and magic, his poems are considered among the finest of the 20th century.
His names were crazy enough—Baron Hajdu, Carl Rodgers, Mr. Carl, Michael Karoly. And his jobs too—receptionist, hypnotherapist, businessman, rentier, journalist, and sex worker. But he was always careful to cover his tracks, so no-one suspected a thing when in 1971 a curious new figure appeared on the London academic scene. Her name was Charlotte Bach, and she was a broad-shouldered mammoth of a woman, with a deep voice and a heavy Central European accent. She was a former lecturer at the University of Budapest, and had a new theory of sex and evolution which was soon being heralded as one of the greatest intellectual advances of the 20th century.
