A83 POEMS SELECTED BY HIMSELF [1957]

a. First edition [1957]:

ROBERT GRAVES | [swelled rule] | Poems Selected by Himself | PENGUIN BOOKS

Collation: [A]16 B16 C/C* –D/D*4/16 E–F16 , 104 leaves.

p.[1] THE PENGUIN POETS | D39 | ROBERT GRAVES | [publisher’s emblem]; p. [2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publisher’s, publication and printer’s notices; p.[5] Foreword; p.[6] blank; pp.7–11 Contents; p.[12] blank; pp. 13–198 text; pp. 199–204 Index of First Lines; p.[205] publisher’s advertisement; p.[206] blank; pp.[207]–[208] publisher’s advertisements.

18.1 × 11.1 cm. Bulk: 1.0 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in paper covers printed with over-all background of elongated diamonds and triangles in green and black; on front, as if label: [rectangular box of green light-heavy-light rules enclosing all:] Robert | Graves | [six-pointed star in green] | SELECTED BY HIMSELF | [publisher’s emblem in green] | THE PENGUIN | POETS | [at right:] 3/6; back has the same design front cover and in small rectangular box near bottom: NOT FOR SALE IN THE U.S.A.; spine has the same design and white box, as if label near top, in which: [light-heavy-light rules in green] | D39 | [light green rule] | [down spine:] Robert Graves | [light green rule] | D39 | [light-heavy-light rules in green]; inner sides of covers blank.

Price: 3s.6d. Number of copies: 24,600. Published 29 August 1957.

Contents: Foreword – In the Wilderness – The Haunted House – Reproach – The Finding of Love – ‘The General Elliott’ – Rocky Acres – Outlaws – One Hard Look – A Frosty Night – Allie – Henry and Mary – Love without Hope – What Did I Dream? – The Country Dance – The Troll’s Nosegay – The Hills of May – Lost Love – Vain and Careless – An English Wood – The Bedpost – The Pier-Glass – Apples and Water – Angry Samson – Down – Mermaid, Dragon, Fiend – In Procession – Warning to Children – Alice – Ancestors – The Cool Web – Love in Barrenness – Song of Contrariety – The Presence – The Land of Whipperginny – In No Direction – The Castle – Return – The Bards – Nobody – Full Moon – Vanity – Pure Death – Sick Love – It Was All Very Tidy – Thief – The Furious Voyage – Song: Lift Boy – Ulysses – The Succubus – The Reader over My Shoulder – The Legs – Gardener – In Broken Images – On Rising Early – Flying Crooked – Fragment of a Lost Poem – The Devil’s Advice to Story-Tellers – Sea Side – Wm. Brazier – Welsh Incident – Hell – Synthetic Such – The Florist Rose – Lost Acres – At First Sight – Recalling War – Down, Wanton, Down! – A Former Attachment – Nature’s Lineaments – Time – The Philosopher – On Dwelling – Parent to Children – Ogres and Pygmies – To Walk on Hills – To Bring the Dead to Life – To Evoke Posterity – Any Honest Housewife – Defeat of the Rebels – Never Such Love – The China Plate – Certain Mercies – The Cuirassiers of the Frontier – The Laureate – A Jealous Man – The Cloak – The Foreboding – With Her Lips Only – The Halls of Bedlam – A Country Mansion – Lovers in Winter – Advocates – On Portents – The Terraced Valley – The Chink – The Ages of Oath – Like Snow – End of Play – The Fallen Tower of Siloam – The Great-Grandmother – No More Ghosts – A Love Story – Dawn Bombardment – The Shot – The Thieves – Lollocks – To Sleep – Despite and Still – The Suicide in the Copse – Frightened Men – Language of the Seasons – Mid-Winter Waking – The Beach – The Villagers and Death – The Door – Under the Pot – Through Nightmare – She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep – Theseus and Ariadne – The Death Room – To Juan at the Winter Solstice – To Be Called a Bear – My Name and I – 1805 – The Persian Version – The Weather of Olympus – Grotesques i–vi – Conversation Piece – I’m Through with You For Ever – Beauty in Trouble – Sirocco at Deyá – From the Embassy – The White Goddess – The Song of Blodeuwedd – Instructions to the Orphic Adept – Lament for Pasiphaë – Intercession in Late October – Counting the Beats – Your Private Way – The Survivor – Questions in a Wood – Darien – The Portrait – Prometheus – The Straw – Dialogue on the Headland – The Mark – The Sea Horse – Dethronement – Cat-Goddesses – The Blue-Fly – A Lost Jewel – The Window Sill – Spoils – Rhea – Leaving the Rest Unsaid – Index of First Lines

Note: This book has been translated into Serbo-Croatian.

A83b. Revised edition ([1961]):

Title-page as A83a.

Collation: [A]16 B16 C–F12 G–H16, 112 leaves.

p.[1] THE PENGUIN POETS | D39 | ROBERT GRAVES | [publisher’s emblem]; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4] publisher’s, edition, copyright and printer’s notices; p.5 Foreword; p. [6] blank; pp.7–12 Contents; pp. 13–214 text; pp.215–220 Index of First Lines; p.[221] publisher’s advertisements; p. [222] blank; pp.223–224 publisher’s advertisements.

18.1 × 11.1 cm. Bulk: 1.1 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound as A83a, except price is changed to 4s.

Price: 4s. Number of copies unknown. Published in 1961.

Contents: As A83a except as follows: . . . Rhea – The Face in the Mirror – Gratitude for a Nightmare – The Naked and the Nude – A Slice of Wedding Cake – Call it a Good Marriage – Around the Mountain – Symptoms of Love – The Visitation – Apple Island – Troughs of Sea – The Starred Coverlet – Turn of the Moon – Seldom Yet Now – Here Live Your Life Out! – Burn It! – Leaving the Rest Unsaid – Index of First Lines

A83c. Third English edition ([1966]):

ROBERT GRAVES | [swelled rule] | Poems Selected by Himself | [publisher’s emblem] | PENGUIN BOOKS

Collation: As A83b.

p.[1] THE PENGUIN POETS | D39 ROBERT GRAVES; p.[2] blank; p. [3] title-page; p.[4] publisher’s, edition, copyright, printer’s and circulation restriction notices; p.[5] Foreword; p.[6] blank; pp.7–11 Contents; p.[12] blank; pp.13–216 text; pp. 217–222; Index of First Lines; p.[223] publisher’s advertisements; p. [224] blank.

18.1 × 11.0 cm. Bulk: 0.9 cm. Wihite wove paper; all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed with overall abstract design composed (on front cover) of red vertical stripes over light and mottled-dark-brown background on left half, and blue upper third, purple lower two-thirds of right half, winding around spine to reverse the order on back cover. Front cover: [at left:] [a penguin] [at right:] Robert Graves [blue thin rule] | [at left:] 5’– | [at right in green:] Selected by himself. Back cover: [at left:] Robert Graves [at right:| [a penguin] | blue thin rule] | [at left, two lines in green:| Cover design by Stephen Russ | Not for sale in the U.S.A. Inner sides of covers blank.

Price: 5s. Number of copies unknown. Published in August 1966.

Contents: Foreword – The Haunted House – Reproach – The Finding of Love – Rocky Acres – Outlaws – One Hard Look – A Frosty Night – Allie – Love without Hope – What Did I Dream? – The Troll’s Nosegay – The Hills of May – Lost Love – Vain and Careless – The Pier-Glass – Apples and Water – Angry Samson – Down – In Procession – Warning to Children – Alice – Ancestors – The Cool Web – Love in Barrenness – Song of Contrariety – The Presence – The Land of Whipperginny – In No Direction – The Castle – Return – The Bards – Nobody – Full Moon – Vanity – Pure Death – Sick Love – It Was All Very Tidy – Thief – The Furious Voyage – Song: Lift Boy – Ulysses – The Reader over My Shoulder – The Legs – Gardener – In Broken Images – On Rising Early – Flying Crooked – Fragment of a Lost Poem – The Devil’s Advice to Story-Tellers – Sea Side – Wm. Brazier – Welsh Incident – Hell – Synthetic Such – Lost Acres – At First Sight – Down, Wanton, Down! – A Former Attachment – Nature’s Lineaments – Time – The Philosopher – On Dwelling – Ogres and Pygmies – To Walk on Hills – To Bring the Dead to Life – To Evoke Posterity – Any Honest Housewife – Never Such Love – The Cuirassiers of the Frontier – The Laureate –A Jealous Man – The Cloak – The Foreboding – With Her Lips Only – The Halls of Bedlam – A Country Mansion – Advocates – On Portents – The Terraced Valley – The Chink – The Ages of Oath – Like Snow – End of Play – The Fallen Tower of Siloam – The Great-Grandmother – No More Ghosts – A Love Story – Dawn Bombardment – The Shot – The Thieves – Lollocks – To Sleep – Despite and Still – The Suicide in the Copse – Frightened Men – Language of the Seasons – Mid-Winter Waking – The Beach – The Villagers and Death – The Door – Under the Pot – Through Nightmare – She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep – Theseus and Ariadne – The Death Room – To Juan at the Winter Solstice – To Be Called a Bear – My Name and I – 1805 – The Persian Version – Grotesques i–vi – Conversation Piece – Beauty in Trouble – Sirocco at Deyá – The White Goddess – The Song of Blodeuwedd – Instructions to the Orphic Adept – Lament for Pasiphaë – Counting the Beats – Your Private Way – The Survivor – Questions in a Wood – Darien – The Portrait – Prometheus – The Straw – Dialogue on the Headland – The Sea Horse – Cat-Goddesses – The Blue-Fly – A Lost Jewel – The Window Sill – Spoils – Rhea – The Face in the Mirror – Gratitude for a Nightmare – The Naked and the Nude – A Slice of Wedding Cake – Call it a Good Marriage – Around the Mountain – Symptoms of Love – The Visitation – Apple Island – Troughs of Sea – The Starred Coverlet – Turn of the Moon – Seldom Yet Now – Leaving the Rest Unsaid – I’d Die for You – Horizon – Lion Lover – The Wreath – In Her Praise – A Restless Ghost – Beware, Madam! – Hedges Freaked With Snow – In Time – She Is No Liar – A Last Poem – To Beguile and Betray – I Will Write – Bird of Paradise – Song: Sword and Rose – The Green Castle – Not to Sleep – Above the Edge of Doom – Black – Whole Love – The Impossible – Iron Palace – Everywhere is Here – Song: The Far Side of Your Moon – Conjunction – Index of First Lines.

Note: Impression: 2nd, 1968.

A83d. Fourth English edition ([1972]):

Title-page as A83c except swelled rule is split in middle.

Collation: [1]–[12]8, 96 leaves.

p.[1] THE PENGUIN POETS | ROBERT GRAVES | [biographical note]; p.[2] blank; p.[3] title-page; p.[4) publisher’s, edition, copyright, printer’s and circulation restriction notices; p.[5] Foreword; p.[6] blank; pp.7-12[13] Contents; p.[14] blank; pp. 15–179 text; pp.l80–185[186]; Index of First Lines; p.[187] publisher’s advertisements; p.[188] blank; pp.[189] - [192] publisher’s advertisements.

Size, bulk and paper as A83c. Bound in white paper covers printed in black, grey, red, brown and blue. Front cover: [at left:] [a penguin] [at right, two lines:] Robert Graves | Poems selected by himself | [in colour, left profile face of Graves by John Aldridge]. Back cover: [at left, three lines:] Robert Graves | The cover shows a detail from a portrait of Robert Graves | by John Aldridge, in the National Portrait Gallery | [in colour, left profile face of Graves by John Aldridge] [overprinted in black in upper left, five lines:] United Kingdom 35p. | Australia $1.20 (recommended) | New Zealand $1.20 | South Africa R0.90 | Canada $1.50. [overprinted in black in lower right, three lines:] POETRY | ISBN 0 14 | 042.039 8 | [at lower edge:] For copyright reasons this edition is not for sale in the U.S.A. Spine [running down:] ROBERT GRAVES [two lines:] ISBN 0 14 | 042.039 8. Inner sides of covers blank.

Price: 35p. Number of copies unknown. Published in 1972.

Note: Impressions: 2nd, 1974 (copies: 10,000); 3rd, 1976 (copies: 10,000).

Contents: Foreword – The Haunted House – Reproach – The Finding of Love – Rocky Acres – Outlaws – One Hard Look – A Frosty Night – Allie – Love without Hope – What Did I Dream? – The Troll’s Nosegay – The Hills of May – Lost Love – Vain and Careless – The Pier-Glass – Angry Samson – Apples and Water – Down – Thief – In Procession – Warning to Children – The Cool Web –Alice – The Bards – Ancestors – Love in Barrenness – Song of Contrariety – The Presence – The Land of Whipperginny – In No Direction – The Castle – Return – Nobody – Full Moon – Conjunction – Vanity – Pure Death – It Was All Very – Tidy – Theseus and Ariadne – The Furious Voyage – Song: Lift Boy – Ulysses – The Reader over My Shoulder – The Legs – Flying Crooked – Gardener – Fragment of a Lost Poem – In Broken Images – On Rising Early – The Devil’s Advice to Story-Tellers – Sea Side – Wm. Brazier – Welsh Incident – A Former Attachment – Hell – Lost Acres – At First Sight – Synthetic Such – Down, Wanton, Down! – Any Honest Housewife – Nature’s Lineaments – Time – The Philosopher – On Dwelling – Ogres and Pygmies – Never Such Love – To Walk on Hills – On Portents – To Bring the Dead to Life – To Evoke Posterity – The Cuirassiers of the Frontier – The Laureate – Like Snow – A Jealous Man – The Cloak – The Foreboding – With Her Lips Only – The Halls of Bedlam – A Country Mansion – Advocates – The Terraced Valley – The Chink – The Ages of Oath – End of Play – The Fallen Tower of Siloam – The Great-Grandmother – NoMore Ghosts – A Love Story – Dawn Bombardment – The Shot – The Thieves – Lollocks – To Sleep – Despite and Still – The Suicide in the Copse – Frightened Men – Language of the Seasons – Mid-Winter Waking – The Beach – The Villagers and Death – The Door – Under the Pot – Through Nightmare – She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep – To Juan at the Winter Solstice – The Death Room – To Be Called a Bear – My Name and I – The Persian Version – 1805 – Conversation Piece – Grotesques i–vi – The Survivor – Beauty in Trouble – Sirocco at Deyá – Your Private Way – The White Goddess – The Song of Blodeuwedd – Instructions to the Orphic Adept – Lament for Pasiphaë – Counting the Beats – Questions in a Wood – Darien – The Portrait – Prometheus – The Straw – Dialogue on the Headland – A Lost Jewel – The Sea Horse – Cat-Goddesses – The Blue-Fly – The Window Sill – Spoils – Rhea – Gratitude for a Nightmare – The Naked and the Nude – A Slice of Wedding Cake – Call it a Good Marriage – Around the Mountain – The Face in the Mirror – Symptoms of Love – The Visitation – Troughs of Sea – The Starred Coverlet – Turn of the Moon – Seldom Yet Now – Apple Island – Horizon – I’d Die For You – The Wreath – Lion Lover – In Her Praise – A Restless Ghost – Beware, Madam! – Hedges Freaked With Snow – In Time – She Is No Liar – A Last Poem – To Beguile and Betray – I Will Write – Bird of Paradise – Song: Sword and Rose –Above the Edge of Doom – The Green Castle – Not to Sleep – Whole Love – The Impossible – Iron Palace – Everywhere is Here – Song: The Far Side of Your Moon – Leaving the Rest Unsaid – Dead Hand – Lure of Murder – Arrears of Moonlight – What Did You Say? – All Except Hannibal – Stolen Jewel – The Snapped Thread – Ecstasy of Chaos – Dancing Flame – Birth of Angels – Fortunate Child – Loving True, Flying Blind – The Near Eclipse – Like Owls – On Giving – In Perspective – The P’eng that was a K’un – Bower-Bird – The Utter Rim – Unicorn and the White Doe – A Dream of Hell – Our Self – Perfectionists – The Necklace – Bites and Kisses – Spite of Mirrors – A Bracelet – Hooded Flame – The Crane – Her Brief Withdrawal – Strangeness – Song: Though Once True Lovers – Song: The Palm Tree – Song: Dewdrop and Diamond – Song: Just Friends – Song: Sullen Moods – Possibly – Is Now the Time? – Twins – Sail and Oar – Gooseflesh Abbey – Wigs and Beards – Astymelusa – To Be In Love – Fact of the Act – Within Reason – She To Him – The Yet Unsayable – The Olive-Yard – The Narrow Sea – Index of First Lines.

A83e. Fifth English edition ([1978]):

ROBERT GRAVES | [swelled rule split at middle] | Poems Selected by Robert Graves | and Anthony Thwaite | [publisher’s emblem] | PENGUIN BOOKS

Collation: 96 leaves, glued at spine.

[pagination begins at p.[3]] p.[3] THE PENGUIN POETS | ROBERT GRAVES | [biographical note] ; p.[4] blank; p. [5] title-page; p.[6] publisher’s, copyright, printer’s and rights reservations notices; pp.7–12 [13] Contents; p.[14] Foreword [as A83d] and note on revision; pp.15-188 text; pp. 189-194 Index of First Lines.

18.1 × 11.1 cm. Bulk: 1.0 cm. White wove paper all edges trimmed. Bound in white paper covers printed in black. Front: [at left:] [publisher’s emblem] | Robert Graves | Poems selected by Robert Graves | and Anthony Thwaite | [detail, in colour, of a portrait of Graves by John Aldridge, in the National Portrait Gallery]; back: Robert Graves | The cover shows a detail from a portrait of Robert Graves | by John Aldridge, in the National Portrait Gallery | [at right:] [publisher’s emblem] | [detail, in colour, of a portrait of Graves by John Aldridge, in the National Portrait Gallery] | [at top left, within portrait:] United Kingdom 95p | Australia $2.95 (recommended) | Canada $2.95 | [at bottom right, within portrait:] POETRY | ISBN 014 | 042.039 8; spine: [down spine:] Robert Graves [in two lines:] ISBN 014 | 042.039 8

Price: 95p. Number of copies: 11,000. Published in 1978.

Note: Impressions: 2nd, 1981 (copies: 5,000); 3rd, 1983 (copies: 5,000).

Contents: As in A83d with the following additions: Here Live Your Life Out! – Surgical Ward: Men – Joan and Darby – Dance of Words – Broken Neck – The Uncut Diamond – The Risk – Tilth – A Dream of Frances Speedwell – Age Gap – Fools – Work Drafts – £.s.d. – Ours is No Wedlock.