56029: The Patchwork Flag

A Typescript of 38 examples of war and children's verses, with Robert Graves' manuscript corrections. Compiled with Nancy Nicholson. Sent also to Edward Marsh. Contains one two-sided leaf of a manuscript comments by Siegfried Sassoon, dated 21st August (1918)" Not published after Graves received criticism both from Sassoon and Robert Ross. |

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Cover of the Typescript of 38 examples of war and children's verses, with Robert Graves' manuscript corrections. Compiled with Nancy Nicholson. Sent also to Edward Marsh. Contains one two-sided leaf of a manuscript comments by Siegfried Sassoon, dated 21st August (1918)" Not published after Graves received criticism both from Sassoon And Robert Ross.

Manuscript of notes to Robert Graves' Typescript of 'The Patchwork Flag', containing 38 examples or war and children's verse. Compiled with wife Nancy Nicholson, and not published after Graves received criticism from both Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Ross.

Manuscript of notes to Robert Graves' Typescript of 'The Patchwork Flag', containing 38 poems or war and children's verse. Compiled with wife Nancy Nicholson, and not published after Graves received criticism from both Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Ross.

Title page of the Typescript of 38 examples of war and children's verses, with Robert Graves' manuscript corrections. Compiled with Nancy Nicholson. Sent also to Edward Marsh. Contains one two-sided leaf of a manuscript comments by Siegfried Sassoon, dated 21st August (1918)" Not published after Graves received criticism both from Sassoon And Robert Ross.

Index included in the Typescript of 38 examples of war and children's verses, with Robert Graves' manuscript corrections. Compiled with Nancy Nicholson. Sent also to Edward Marsh. Contains one two-sided leaf of a manuscript comments by Siegfried Sassoon, dated 21st August (1918)" Not published after Graves received criticism both from Sassoon And Robert Ross.

Foreword written as a poem included in the Typescript of 38 examples of war and children's verses, with Robert Graves' manuscript corrections. Compiled with Nancy Nicholson. Sent also to Edward Marsh. Contains one two-sided leaf of a manuscript comments by Siegfried Sassoon, dated 21st August (1918)" Not published after Graves received criticism both from Sassoon And Robert Ross.

This poem is referred to and included in part in Robert Graves' letter to Siegfried Sassoon of 16th July 1918, charging him with not 'writing deeply'. Part of a Typescript of 'The Patchwork Flag', which included 38 examples of war and children's verses, with Robert Graves' manuscript corrections. Compiled with Nancy Nicholson. Sent also to Edward Marsh. Contains one two-sided leaf of a manuscript comments by Siegfried Sassoon, dated 21st August (1918)" Not published after Graves received criticism both from Sassoon And Robert Ross.

Part of a Typescript of 'The Patchwork Flag', which included 38 examples of war and children's verses, with Robert Graves' manuscript corrections. Compiled with Nancy Nicholson. Sent also to Edward Marsh. Contains one two-sided leaf of a manuscript comments by Siegfried Sassoon, dated 21st August (1918)" Not published after Graves received criticism both from Sassoon And Robert Ross.

Also included with a letter to Siegfried Sassoon of 16th July 1918. Part of a Typescript of 'The Patchwork Flag', which included 38 examples of war and children's verses, with Robert Graves' manuscript corrections. Compiled with Nancy Nicholson. Sent also to Edward Marsh. Contains one two-sided leaf of a manuscript comments by Siegfried Sassoon, dated 21st August (1918)" Not published after Graves received criticism both from Sassoon And Robert Ross.

This poem was first drafted in the autumn of 1917, and was cited by Siegfried Sassoon in a letter to Edward Marsh on 22 December 1917 as Robert Graves' 'most sustained effort'. Part of a Typescript of 'The Patchwork Flag', which included 38 examples of war and children's verses, with Robert Graves' manuscript corrections. Compiled with Nancy Nicholson. Sent also to Edward Marsh. Contains one two-sided leaf of a manuscript comments by Siegfried Sassoon, dated 21st August (1918)" Not published after Graves received criticism both from Sassoon And Robert Ross.

Part of a Typescript of 'The Patchwork Flag', which included 38 examples of war and children's verses, with Robert Graves' manuscript corrections. Compiled with Nancy Nicholson. Sent also to Edward Marsh. Contains one two-sided leaf of a manuscript comments by Siegfried Sassoon, dated 21st August (1918)" Not published after Graves received criticism both from Sassoon And Robert Ross.

'The Voice of Beauty Drowned' is the fifth of six poems in 'Country Sentiment' that appeared in November 1919 in 'Georgian Poetry 1918-1919'. Edward Marsh, the editor, wrote to Graves with a number of corrections, but his letter arrived after Graves' had already returned the final proofs. See Graves, B. and Ward, D. (1995) 'The Complete Poems: Volume 1' p. 354 for a list of alterations.

Part of a Typescript of 'The Patchwork Flag', which included 38 examples of war and children's verses, with Robert Graves' manuscript corrections. Compiled with Nancy Nicholson. Sent also to Edward Marsh. Contains one two-sided leaf of a manuscript comments by Siegfried Sassoon, dated 21st August (1918)" Not published after Graves received criticism both from Sassoon And Robert Ross.

The Voice of Beauty Drowned' is the fifth of six poems in 'Country Sentiment' that appeared in November 1919 in 'Georgian Poetry 1918-1919'. Edward Marsh, the editor, wrote to Graves with a number of corrections, but his letter arrived after Graves' had already returned the final proofs. See Graves, B. and Ward, D. (1995) 'The Complete Poems: Volume 1' p. 354 for a list of alterations.

Part of a Typescript of 'The Patchwork Flag', which included 38 examples of war and children's verses, with Robert Graves' manuscript corrections. Compiled with Nancy Nicholson. Sent also to Edward Marsh. Contains one two-sided leaf of a manuscript comments by Siegfried Sassoon, dated 21st August (1918). Not published after Graves received criticism both from Sassoon and Robert Ross.

On a pencil manuscript of the poem held in Buffalo, NY, Graves wrote that this poem was drafted when he was feeling particularly low and disturbed by his experience of the front line. Part of a Typescript of 'The Patchwork Flag', which included 38 examples of war and children's verses, with Robert Graves' manuscript corrections. Compiled with Nancy Nicholson. Sent also to Edward Marsh. Contains one two-sided leaf of a manuscript comments by Siegfried Sassoon, dated 21st August (1918)" Not published after Graves received criticism both from Sassoon And Robert Ross.