Author: GRAVES, ROBERT (CAPTAIN ROBERT VON RANKE GRAVES )
Title: Collected Poems (1961)
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers have some light toning. The dust jacket is clean and mostly crisp, but does have fading to the colors on the spine and front cover along with some rubbing. This is the variant dust jacket - with C. P. Above the price. "At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Graves enlisted almost immediately, taking a commission in the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a second lieutenant (on probation) on 12 August. He was confirmed in his rank on 10 March 1915, and received rapid promotion, being promoted to lieutenant on 5 May 1915 and to captain on 26 October. He published his first volume of poems, Over the Brazier, in 1916. He developed an early reputation as a war poet and was one of the first to write realistic poems about the experience of frontline conflict. In later years, he omitted his war poems from his collections, on the grounds that they were too obviously "part of the war poetry boom." At the Battle of the Somme, he was so badly wounded by a shell-fragment through the lung that he was expected to die and was officially reported as having died of wounds. He gradually recovered and, apart from a brief spell back in France, spent the remainder of the war in England. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: Poetry Robert Graves English poetry collected poems
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Title: Collected Poems (1961)
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers have some light toning. The dust jacket is clean and mostly crisp, but does have fading to the colors on the spine and front cover along with some rubbing. This is the variant dust jacket - with C. P. Above the price. "At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Graves enlisted almost immediately, taking a commission in the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a second lieutenant (on probation) on 12 August. He was confirmed in his rank on 10 March 1915, and received rapid promotion, being promoted to lieutenant on 5 May 1915 and to captain on 26 October. He published his first volume of poems, Over the Brazier, in 1916. He developed an early reputation as a war poet and was one of the first to write realistic poems about the experience of frontline conflict. In later years, he omitted his war poems from his collections, on the grounds that they were too obviously "part of the war poetry boom." At the Battle of the Somme, he was so badly wounded by a shell-fragment through the lung that he was expected to die and was officially reported as having died of wounds. He gradually recovered and, apart from a brief spell back in France, spent the remainder of the war in England. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: Poetry Robert Graves English poetry collected poems
Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 43911
- Book number: 43911
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