A179 WAR POEMS [2016]

First edition:

Robert | Graves | War Poems | Edited by | Charles Mundye | Seren

p. [1] Robert | Graves | War Poems; p. [2] blank; p. [3] title-page; p. [4] publisher’s, rights reservation, copyright, ISBN, BL cataloguing, financial assistance and printer’s notices; pp. [5]–[9] Contents; p.10 List Of Abbreviations; pp. 11–49 Introduction; pp. 50-51 About This Edition; p. 52 Acknowledgements; pp. [53]54-296 text, with pp. [69, 85, 145, 207, 213, 221, 241, 245, 251, 253, 257, 261, 263, 265, 269, 273, 281, 289, 291] being unnumbered and pp. [84, 212, 220, 240, 244, 250, 256, 260, 268, 272, 280, 288, 297] blank; pp. 298-320 Notes; pp. 321-322 Index of Titles; pp. 323-325 Index of First Lines; p. [326] publisher’s statement; pp. [327]-[328] blank.

22.1 × 14.7 cm. Bulk: 3.0/3.7 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in grey simulated cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in silver, from top to bottom: Robert Graves War Poems Ed. Charles Mundye [foot:] [star]

Price: £19.99. Number of copies: undetermined. Published 31 October 2016 in white dust-jacket printed in grey, black, army green and yellowish pink.

Contents: The Poet in the Nursery – Star-Talk – The Dying Knight and the Fauns – Willaree – The Face of the Heavens – Jolly Yellow Moon – Youth and Folly – Ghost Music – Free Verse – In the Wilderness – Oh, and Oh! – Cherry-Time – On Finding Myself a Soldier – The Shadow of Death – A Renascence – The Morning Before the Battle – Limbo – The First Funeral – The Adventure – I Hate the Moon – Big Words – The Dead Fox Hunter – It’s a Queer Time – 1915 – Over the Brazier – To an Ungentle Critic – The Legion – To Lucasta on Going to the Wars–for the Fourth Time – Two Fusiliers – To Robert Nichols – Dead Cow Farm – Goliath and David – Babylon – Mr. Philosopher – The Cruel Moon – Finland – A Pinch of Salt – The Caterpillar – Sorley’s Weather – The Cottage – The Last Post – When I’m Killed – Letter to S.S. from Mametz Woods – A Dead Boche – Faun – The Spoilsport – The Shivering Beggar – Jonah – John Skelton – I Wonder What it Feels Like to Be Drowned – Double Red Daisies – Careers – I’d Love to Be a Fairy’s Child – The Next War – Strong Beer – Marigolds – The Lady Visitor in the Pauper Ward – Love and Black Magic – Smoke-Rings – A Child’s Nightmare – Escape – The Bough of Nonsense – Not Dead – A Boy in Church – Corporal Stare – ‘The Assault Heroic’ – The Poet in the Nursery – In the Wilderness – Cherry-Time –1915 – Free Verse – Foreword – Letter to S.S. from Bryn-y-pin – Loving Henry – Ballad of Nursery Rhyme – Dicky – Neglectful Edward – The Picture Book – Country at War – The Leveller – Night March – Bazentin 1916 – Here They Lie – Peace – The Voice of Beauty Drowned – Fastidious – Merlin and the Child – Manticor in Arabia – The God Called Poetry – The Alice Jean – Drink Your Red Wine – Hate Not, Fear Not – Poetic Injustice – Apples and Water – Sospan Fach – The Survivor Comes Home – Outlaws – The Two Brothers – A Christmas Fancy – The Stepmother and the Princess – Andrew and Annet – The Boy out of Church – Jane – True Johnny – The Cupboard – The King’s Story Teller – Careless Lady – Vain Man – The Dream – The Pudding – The Funeral – Betsy – The Patchwork Flag – Ghost Raddled – Retrospect: The Jests of the Clock – Tom Taylor – A First Review – ‘The General Elliott’ – The Lord Chamberlain Tells of a Famous Meeting – Sergeant-Major Money – A Letter from Wales – The Clipped Stater – At the Games – An Occasion – A Dedication of Three Hats – The Cuirassiers of the Frontier – Callow Captain – Recalling War – Dawn Bombardment – To Lucia at Birth – The Oldest Soldier – The Last Day of Leave – The Survivor – The Enlisted Man – July 24th – Safe Receipt of a Censored Letter – The Field-Postcard – Through the Periscope – Died of Wounds – The Savage Story of Cardonette – Trench Life – Is it Peace? – The Last Drop – Machine Gun Fire: Cambrin – The Fusilier - (For Peter) – Return – A Ghost from Arakan – November 11TH – Epigram on the First Year of the War – The Shrimp-Boy – A Tribute to Beauty – From an Old Coloured Print – Temptation