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===Memorials=== Three of his former houses have a [[blue plaque]] on them: in [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]], [[Brixham]], and [[Islip, Oxfordshire|Islip]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Robert Graves blue plaque |website=geograph.org.uk |url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3298489 |access-date=17 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Novelist and poet Robert Graves (July 24th 1895 β Dec 7th 1985) lived here at Vale House 1940β1946. Vale House (circa 17th century) was originally a farmhouse |url=http://openplaques.org/plaques/6832 |publisher=openplaques.org |access-date=17 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Robert Graves |publisher=Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board |url=http://oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/graves.html}}</ref> On 11 November 1985, Graves was among sixteen Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in [[Westminster Abbey]]'s [[Poets' Corner]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Poets |url=http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/wwi/poets/poets.html |access-date=19 December 2010 |publisher=Net.lib.byu.edu}}</ref> The inscription on the stone was taken from [[Wilfred Owen]]'s "Preface" to his poems and reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."<ref>[http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/wwi/poets/Preface.html BYU library archive]</ref> Of the 16 poets, Graves was the only one still living at the time of the commemoration ceremony, though he would die less than a month later.
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