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

A156 THE CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS [(1995)]:

First edition:

Collation: [1]-[5]16, 80 leaves.

p. [i] Robert Graves | The Centenary Selected Poems; p. [ii] Robert Graves Programme | General Editor: Patrick J. M. Quinn | The Centenary Selected Poems | Collected Writings on Poetry | edited by Paul O’Prey; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] publisher’s, copyright, BL cataloguing, Arts Council of England assistance and printer’s notices; pp. v-viii Contents; pp. ix-xii Introduction; pp. 1–141 text; p. [142] blank; pp. 143–146 Index of First Lines; pp. [147] – [148] blank.

21. 5 × 13.6 cm. Bulk: 1.2/ 1.9 cm. White wove endpapers printed in pale fawn with a repeated motif in white: [within a cartouche:] Robert | Graves; inner sides of endpapers blank. Bound in black simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [down spine:] Robert Graves [in two lines:] THE CENTENARY | SELECTED POEMS | [upright:] Edited | by | Patrick | Quinn | [down spine, in two lines:] CARCANET | ALYSCAMPS

Price: £15.95. Number of copies not determined. Published 27 April 1995 in white laid paper dust-jacket printed in ochre, light ochre and plum.

Contents: GEORGIAN PERIOD (1914-1920): The Poet in the Nursery – In the Wilderness – Escape – A Dead Boche – Letter to S. S. from Mametz Wood – Finland – A Boy in Church – Sospan Fach (The Little Saucepan) – Ghost Raddled – Loving Henry – The Kiss – Song: One Hard Look – A Frosty Night – Rocky Acres – The Cupboard – Lost Love – Outlaws – Vain and Careless – The Troll’s Nosegay – MODERNIST DELVINGS PERIOD (1921-1926): The Stake – The Pier-Glass – The Gnat – Return – Song of Contrariety – On the Ridge (‘Love in Barrenness’) – Sullen Moods – Old Wives’ Tales (‘Mermaid, Dragon, Friend’) – The Lands of Whipperginny – The Red Ribbon Dream – A False Report (‘Angry Sampson’) – Children of Darkness – The Bowl and Rim – Full Moon – Attercop: The All-Wise Spider – From Our Ghostly Enemy – Alice – The Figure-Head (‘Death of a Farmer’) – Ovid in Defeat – The Clipped Stater – THE LAURA RIDING PERIOD (1927-1942): Pygmalion to Galatea – The Taint – Pure Death – This is Noon – The Nape of the Neck – The Cool Web – Hell – The Dead Ship (‘Ship Master’, later ‘The Furious Voyage’) – Between Dark and Dark (‘O Love in Me’, later ‘Sick Love’) – In Broken Images – To the Galleys (‘Thief’) – Warning to Children – Against Kind – Midway – Castle (‘The Castle’) – Front Door (‘Front Door Soliloquy’) – Landscape (‘Nature’s Lineaments’) – Sandhills (‘Sea Side’) – Quayside (‘A Former Attachment’) – It Was All Vet Tidy – Interruption – The Age of Certainty (‘New Legends’) – The Beast (I) (‘Saint’) – The Terraced Valley – Act V, Scene 5 – Tail Piece: A Song to Make You and Me Laugh (‘Lift Boy’, later ‘Song: Lift-Boy’, eventually ‘Lift-Boy’) – Brother – Flying Crooked – The Felloe’d Year – On Time (‘Time’) – To Whom Else? – On Portents – The Bards (‘Lust in Song’) – Ulysses – Down, Wanton, Down! – The Cell (‘The Philosopher’) – Nobody – Danegeld – The Climate of Thought – A Jealous Man – Never Such Love – To Walk on Hills – The Exile (‘The Cloak’) – End of Play – Parent to Children – Certain Mercies – The Cuirassiers of the Frontier – Hotel Bed (‘Hotel Bed at Lugano’) – Leda – Recalling War – To Evoke Posterity – Defeat of the Rebels – The China Plate – The Halls of Bedlam – A Country Mansion – The Eremites – The Ages of Oath – The Fallen Tower of Siloam – The Great-Grandmother – No More Ghosts – A Love Story – To Sleep – UNDER THE WHITE GODDESS (1943-1959): Dawn Bombardment – The Worms of History – The Shot – Lollocks – Despite and Still – Frightened Men – The Oath – Language of the Seasons – Mid-Winter Waking – Through Nightmare – Instructions to the Orphic Adept – Theseus and Ariadne – To Juan at the Winter Solstice – To be Named a Bear (‘To Be Called a Bear’) – The Last Day of Leave – The Destroyer – The Survivor – Primrose and Periwinkle (‘The Young Cordwainer’) – The White Goddess – The Straw – Rhea – Esau and Judith – The Portrait – The Window Sill – Counting the Beats – Darien – A Slice of Wedding Cake – THE BLACK GODDESS (1960-1972): Under the Olives – Turn of the Moon – The Visitation – The Winged Heart – A Restless Ghost – The Septuagenarian – A Time of Waiting – To Beguile and Betray – The Oleaster – The Black Goddess – Lamia in Love – Ambience – Between Hyssop and Axe – The Red Shower – The Fetter – Deliverance – Nothing Now Astonishes – Song: Dew-Drop and Diamond – The Olive Yard – The Unpenned Poem – The Green Woods of Unrest – Index of First Lines.

It is bound in grey simulated cloth paper boards. The word ‘Alycamps’ is abscent from both the book and the dust-jacket.

There is an issue of the book bound in glossy paper-coverd boards printed in ochre, light ochre, plum and black. It was probably issued without dust-jacket. A notice on p. [4] reads ‘Printed digitally since 2001.’ The outer back endpaper carries the notice: ‘Printed in the United States | 2207

A157 COLLECTED WRITINGS ON POETRY [(1995)]:

First edition:

Collation: [1]-[18]16, 288 leaves.

p. [i] ROBERT GRAVES | Collected Writings on Poetry; p; [ii] list of titles in Carcanet’s Robert Graves Programme; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] edition, publisher’s, copyright, rights reservation, BL cataloguing and Arts Council of England notices; pp. [v] – vi Contents; p. [vii] – xiv Introduction; pp. [1] 2 –547 [548] text, with pp. [25, 32, 48, 69, 79, 84, 86, 96, 99, 112, 117, 119, 134, 150, 166, 187, 205, 221, 240, 246, 265, 283, 298, 303, 320, 336, 354, 364, 375, 384, 400, 418, 439, 460, 477, 495, 513, 519, 531, 537, 540, 542, 548] being unnumbered; p. [549] – 552 Sources; p. [553] Bibliography; pp. [554] – 560 Index; pp. [561] – [562] blank.

21.6 × 13.5 cm. Bulk: 4.0/ 4.8 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers printed in pale fawn with a repeated motif in white: [within a cartouche:] Robert | Graves; Bound in black simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [down spine:] Robert Graves [in three lines:] COLLECTED WRITINGS | ON POETRY | Edited by Paul O’Prey | [upright:] CARCANET | ALYSCAMPS

Price: £35.00. Published 22 June 1995 in a white laid paper dust-jacket printed in pale aqua, aqua and black. Jacket design by Stephen Raw.

Contents: Introduction – Observations on Poetry 1922-1925: The Poetic Trance – Prose and Poetry – Fake Poetry and Bad Poetry – Schools – Rhyme – Ariphrades – Vers libre – The Hounds of Spring – The Outward and Inward Ears – Secondary Elaboration – The Arrogance of Poets – Scientific English – Texture – Fashions in Poetry – ‘Bread I Dip in the River’ – Hélas, c’est Victor Hugo – Shakespeare’s Fair Copies – The Grosser Senses – Centenaries – Hamlet – The Future of Poetry – Loving Mad Tom – Essays from Epilogue I: Coleridge and Wordsworth – Keats and Shelley – The Pastoral – How Poets See- The Poets of World War II – ‘Mad Mr Swinburne’ – The Ghost of Milton – The Common Asphodel – Mother Goose’s Lost Goslings – The Old Black Cow – Dr Syntax and Mr Pound – Juana de Asbaje – THE CLARK LECTURES: The Crowning Privilege – The Age of Obsequiousness – The Road to Rydal Mount – Harp, Anvil, Oar – Dame Ocupacyon – These Be Your Gods, O Israel! – The Poet and His Public: a Home Service Broadcast – Legitimate Criticism of Poetry – Sweeney Among the Blackbirds – The Making and Marketing of Poetry – Pulling a Poem Apart – OXFORD ADDRESSES ON POETRY: The Dedicated Poet – The Anti-Poet – The Personal Muse – Some Instances of Poetic Vulgarity – Technique in Poetry – Poet in a Valley of Dry Bones – Intimations of the Black Goddess – Standards of Craftsmanship – A Favourite Cat Drowned – A Pretty Kettle of Fish – The Duende – Muntu, Mammon, Marxism – Ecstasy – The Word Báraka – Translating the Rubaiyyat – Tyger, Tyger – Address to the Poets of Hungary – Poetry and Obscenity – Ovid and the Libertines – The Inner Ear – Sources – Bibliography – Index

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