A178 SELECTED POEMS [2013]

First edition:

ROBERT GRAVES Selected Poems | edited by Michael Longley | [publisher’s emblem] | faber and faber

Collation: 88 leaves.

p. [i] ROBET GRAVES | SELECTED POEMS; p. [ii] blank; p. [iii] title-page; p. [iv] publisher’s printer’s; copyright; BL cataloguing; ISBN; and paper sourcing notices; ; p. [v] The Patchwork Quilt; p. [vi] blank; pp. vii-xi Contents; p. [xii] blank; pp. xiii-xxvi] Introduction; pp. xxvii Editorial Note; p. [xxviii] blank; p. [1] ROBERT GRAVES | Selected Poems’ [2] blank; pp. 3-[124] text, with p. [214] being unnumbered; p. [125] Index of Titles and First Lines; p. [126] blank; pp, 127-135 titles and first lines; pp. [136]-[148] blank.

21.4 × 13.6 cm. Bulk: 1.3/1.8 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in red simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in silver, from top to bottom: Robert Graves [four squares in diamond pattern repeated three times] Selected Poems [upright, at foot:] [publisher’s emblem]

Price: £15.99. Number of copies: undetermined. Published 15 August 2013 in white dust-jacket printed in rust, orange and beige.

Contents: The Patchwork Quilt – In the Wilderness – 1915 – Goliath and David – A Dead Bosche – Not Dead – The Legion – Two Fusiliers – To R. N. – Bazentin, 1916 – Assumption Day – Return – Corporal Stare – Lost Love – One Hard Look – Rocky Acres – Allie – The Untidy Man – Outlaws – Haunted – The Troll’s Nosegay – The Pier-Glass – Love in Barrenness – Angry Samson – An English Wood – Full Moon – Alice – Love Without Hope – Sergeant-Major Money – A Letter from Wales – An Occasion – Pure Death – The Cool Web – Lost Acres – Sick Love – In Broken Images – Warning to Children – Welsh Incident – Nature’s Lineaments – Wm. Brazier – A Former Attachment – It Was All Very Tidy – The Reader Over My Shoulder – New Legends – The Terraced Valley – Flying Crooked – Time – The Legs – Ogres and Pygmies – On Portents – The Bards – Ulysses – Down, Wanton, Down! – Nobody – The Christmas Robin – At First Sight – Recalling War – To Walk On Hills – To Bring the Dead to Life – To Evoke Posterity – Any Honest Housewife – Never Such Love – Like Snow – The Climate of Thought – End of Play – Leaving the Rest Unsaid – The Thieves – Dawn Bombardment – Lollocks – Despite and Still – The Suicide in the Copse – Mid-Winter Waking – The Beach – The Door – Under the Pot – Through Nightmare – To Lucia at Birth – She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep – Instructions to the Orphic Adept – Theseus and Ariadne – To Juan at the Winter Solstice – The Persian Version – 1805 – The Last Day of Leave – Amergin’s Charm – The Song of Blodeuwedd – Intercession in Late October – The White Goddess – Counting the Beats – The Death Room – My Name and I – Darien – The Survivor – The Foreboding – The Straw – Dialogue on the Headland – Lovers in Winter – The Sea Horse – Cat-Goddesses – The Blue-Fly – Rhea – With Her Lips Only – Penthesileia – Spoils – The Face in the Mirror – The Naked and the Nude – Woman and Tree – The Second-Fated – A Slice of Wedding Cake – Call It a Good Marriage – The Twin of Sleep – Around the Mountain – Symptoms of Love – Under the Olives – The Starred Coverlet – Hag-Ridden – Turn of the Moon – The Miller’s Man – The Broken Girth – Hedges Freaked with Snow – At Best, Poets – A Last Poem – Judgement of Paris – The Three-Faced – Dance of Words – The Oleaster – A Measure of Casualness – Not to Sleep – Black – Good Night to the old Gods – The Sweet-Shop Round the Corner – Bower-Bird – Bites and Kisses – A Bracelet – Her Brief Withdrawal – At Seventy-Two – Song: Dew-Drop and Diamond – The Home-Coming – Wigs and Beards – Astymelusa – The Yet Unsayable – Poisoned Day – Armistice Day, 1918 – The Judges – My Ghost – The Green-Sailed Vessel – Pity – Beatrice and Dante – Tilth – A Dream of Frances Speedwell – At the Gate – Crucibles of Love – Three Times in Love

Note: An impression in paper covers was published 3 July 2014 in the publisher’s ‘Poets of the Great War’ series. A “second impression” as ‘Selected Poems’ was published in 2018.