posted on 2024-04-05, 13:45authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Written below Typescript version of 'In Spite'. Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895 - 1915) was killed in the battle of Loos on 13 October 1915. Graves refers to him in Goodbye to All That' as 'one of the three poets of importance killed during the war'. (The other two were Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen).
History
Identifier
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Subject
Allied Forces | Somme | Western Front
Creator
Graves, Robert (1895-1985)
Date
Feb-17
Date Created
01/02/1917
Temporal Date
28/02/1917
Spatial
Suzanne, Somme
Source
Leaf
Medium
Paper
Format
Pencil
Type
Poem
Contributor
Everett Sharp
Rights
The Poetry Collection, The University at Buffalo / The Robert Graves Copyright Trust
Collection ID
The Robert Graves Collection: MS 141 Box 85
Repository Name
University Archives, University at Buffalo
Repository Address
University Archives, University at Buffalo, 420 Cappen Hall, Buffalo, New York State, 14260-1674, USA