SECTION A: Books written, co-written or translated by Robert Graves

A95 COLLECTED POEMS 1961

First edition:

Collation: 1-212 [3] - [5]12 6-712 [8] - [15]12, 180 leaves.

p.[1] COLLECTED POEMS; p.[2] blank; p.[3] list of books by Graves; p.[4] blank; p.[5] title-page; p.[6] acknowledgement, copyright, printing and edition notices; p.[7] TO CALLIOPE; p.[8] blank; p.[9] FOREWORD; p.[10] blank; pp.11–20 CONTENTS; pp.[21]–[22]23–350 text, with pp.[21, 53, 87, 111, 167, 185, 219, 245, 263, 291, 307, 333] being section headings and pp.[22, 54, 88, 112, 166, 184, 186, 218, 220, 244, 246, 262, 264, 290, 292, 308, 332, 334] being blank; pp.351–358 INDEX OF FIRST LINES; pp.[359]–[360] blank.

20.8 × 13.9 cm. Bulk: 2.6/3.2 cm. White wove paper; top and bottom edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in grey cloth; back blank; front stamped in silver: [decorative rule] | [solid brown rectangular box, inside which two lines:] COLLECTED | POEMS | [decorative rule]; spine stamped in silver: [decorative rule] | [solid brown rectangular box, inside which four lines:] COLLECTED | POEMS | Robert | Graves | [decorative rule] | DOUBLEDAY

Contents: To Calliope – Foreword – I: In the Wilderness – The Haunted House –– Reproach – The Finding of Love – ‘The General Eliott’ – Rocky Acres – Outlaws – One Hard Look – A Frosty Night – Allie – Unicorn and the White Doe – 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 – II: In Procession – Warning to Children – Alice – Richard Roe and John Doe – The Witches’ Cauldron – Ancestors – The Coronation Murder – Children of Darkness – The Cool Web – Love in Barrenness – Song of Contrariety – The Presence – The Land of Whipperginny – In No Direction – The Castle – Return – The Bards – A Lost World – Nobody – The Progress – Full Moon – Vanity – Pure Death – Sick Love – It Was All Very Tidy – III: Callow Captain – Thief – The Furious Voyage – Song: Lift-Boy – Traveller’s Curse after Misdirection – The Last Day of Leave – The Next Time – Ulysses – The Succubus – The Reader over My Shoulder – The Legs – Gardener – Front Door Soliloquy – In Broken Images – Trudge, Body! – The Christmas Robin – On Rising Early – Flying Crooked – Fragment of a Lost Poem – Brother – IV: Galatea and Pygmalion – The Devil’s Advice to Story-Tellers – Sergeant-Major Money – Sea Side – Wm. Brazier – Welsh Incident – Vision in the Repair-Shop – Interruption – Act V, Scene 5 – Midway – Hell – Leda – 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 – Hotel Bed at Lugano – Ogres and Pygmies – History of the Word – Single Fare – To Walk on Hills – To Bring the Dead to Life – To Evoke Posterity – Any Honest Housewife – Defeat of the Rebels – Never Such Love – The Fallen Signpost – 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 – Or to Perish before Day – A Country Mansion – Lovers in Winter – Advocates – V: On Portents – The Terraced Valley – Alexander and Queen Janet – The Chink – The Ages of Oath – New Legends – Like Snow – End of Play – The Climate of Thought – The Fallen Tower of Siloam – The Great-Grandmother – No More Ghosts – VI: A Love Story – Dawn Bombardment – The Worms of History – The Glutton – The Shot – The Thieves – Lollocks – To Sleep – Despite and Still – The Suicide in the Copse – Frightened Men – The Oath – Language of the Seasons – Mid-Winter Waking – The Rock at the Corner – The Beach – The Villagers and Death – The Door – Under the Pot – Through Nightmare – To Lucia at Birth – Death by Drums – She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep – Theseus and Ariadne – Penthesileia – Cold Weather Proverb – The Death Room – To Juan at the Winter Solstice – To Be Called a Bear – VII: My Name and I – 1805 – At the Savoy Chapel – Dream of a Climber – The Persian Version – The Weather of Olympus – Apollo of the Physiologists – The Oldest Soldier – Grotesques i–vi – The Eugenist – A Civil Servant – Gulls and Men – Conversation Piece – General Bloodstock’s Lament for England – ‘¡Wellcome, to the Caves of Artá!’ – I’m Through with You Forever – The Sacred Mission – Poets’ Corner – Beauty in Trouble – Sirocco at Deyá – From the Embassy – VIII: The White Goddess – Amergin’s Charm – The Battle of the Trees – The Song of Blodeuwedd – Instructions to the Orphic Adept – Lament for Pasiphaë – The Sirens’ Welcome to Cronos – Intercession in Late October – The Jackals’ Address to Isis – The Destroyer – Return of the Goddess – IX: Counting the Beats – The Young Cordwainer – Your Private Way – The Survivor – Questions in a Wood – Darien – The Portrait – Prometheus – The Straw – Cry Faugh! – Hercules at Nemea – Dialogue on the Headland – The Mark – Liadan and Curithir – The Sea Horse – Reproach to Julia – Dethronement – Cat-Goddesses – The Blue-Fly – A Lost Jewel – The Window Sill – Spoils – Rhea – X: The Face in the Mirror – The Coral Pool – Gratitude for a Nightmare – Friday Night – The Naked and the Nude – Woman and Tree – Forbidden Words – A Slice of Wedding Cake – A Plea to Boys and Girls – Nothing – Call It a Good Marriage – The Second-Fated – The Twin of Sleep – Around the Mountain – XI: Lyceia – Symptoms of Love – The Sharp Ridge – Under the Olives – The Visitation – Fragment – Apple Island – The Falcon Woman – Troughs of Sea – The Laugh – The Death Grapple – In Single Syllables – The Starred Coverlet – The Intrusion – Patience – Hag-Ridden – The Cure – Turn of the Moon – Seldom, Yet Now – Anchises to Aphrodite – The Secret Land – To Myrto of Myrtles – XII: Two Children – The Dangerous Gift – Twice of the Same Fever – Surgical Ward: Men – Nightfall at Twenty Thousand Feet – The Simpleton – The Were-Man – The Person from Porlock – Established Lovers – The Quiet Glades of Eden – Here Live Your Life Out! – Burn It! – Joan and Darby – Ruby and Amethyst – Song: Come, Enjoy Your Sunday! – Leaving the Rest Unsaid – Index of First Lines.

Price: $5.95. Number of copies: more than 6,000 (in three printings). Published 21 July 1961 in white dust-jacket printed in grey, black and light and dark brown. Dust-jacket design by Herb Marcelin.

Notes: This book exhibits a number of variations in binding style, dust-jackets and the press figures printed on p. 358. They are listed in a possible sequence of issue.

Variation sequence 1: The first edition notice on p. [6] is present. Bound in grey cloth as described above. The publisher’s printing code “C21” (indicating the sheets were printed during the 21st week of 1961) is printed flush right at the bottom of p. 358. Bound as described above. The letters “C. P.” are printed above the price on the front flap. The dust-jacket is printed on coated paper. Two review copies exhibit these characteristics as do the publisher’s file copy and three other copies examined.

Variation sequence 2: As Variation sequence 1 except the letters “C. P.” are not printed above the front flap on the dust-jacket.

First impression, book club issue by Mid-Century Book Society, Inc. Such copies were offered to members at a price of $4.95. The inner front cover of The Mid-Century, No. 28, July 1961 states “Now we are pleased to announce that Mid-Century has the exclusive rights to the new edition of The Collected Poems of Robert Graves, which had just been published by Doubleday.”

Variation sequence 4: As variation sequence 3, except the dust-jacket is printed on uncoated paper.

Variation sequence 5: First edition, second impression. As Variation sequence 2, except the publisher’s printing code “C41” (indicating the sheets were printed during the 41st week of 1961) is printed flush right at the bottom of p. 358. This was published by 1 December 1961.

Variation sequence 6: First edition, third impression. As Variation sequence 5 except The printing code “H38” (indicating the sheets were printed during 38th week of 1966) is printed upside-down flush right at the bottom of p. 358.

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