 Renown British war poet Robert von Ranke Graves was initially received with intense suspicion when a rumour was started that he was a spy.Jean Moorcroft Wilson, a British academic and writer, best known as a biographer and critic of First World War poets and poetry, stated that "it was unlucky that a notorious German spy caught in England in 1911" had used the name Armgaard Karl Graves an alias with the same last name as the poet.Graves left the German Empire in 1898.