This book was the first published of Robert Graves' early poetry, from about fourteen to twenty years of age, and published during his time in the trenches in WW1, as a Captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. His subsequent friendships with both, Wilfred Owen, and Siegfried Sassoon, put him in the fore with the "War Poets". And whilst he himself believed that he was primarily a poet he is chiefly known now for his historical novels of, "I, Claudius," and "Claudius the God". I am happy to read this early verse into the catalogue. - Summary by cavaet
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
The Poet in the Nursey
01:57 - Chapter 2
Star-Talk
01:42 - Chapter 3
The Dying Night and the Fauns
01:19 - Chapter 4
Willaree
00:58 - Chapter 5
The Face of the Heavens
00:52 - Chapter 6
Jolly Yellow Moon
01:00 - Chapter 7
Youth and Folly
01:22 - Chapter 8
Ghost Music
00:45 - Chapter 9
Free Verse
01:16 - Chapter 10
In the Wilderness
01:22 - Chapter 11
Oh, and Oh!
00:58 - Chapter 12
Cherry-Time
01:21 - Chapter 13
The Shadow of Death
01:01 - Chapter 14
The Morning Before the Battle
01:07 - Chapter 15
Limbo
01:03 - Chapter 16
The Trenches (Heard in the Ranks)
00:51 - Chapter 17
(Nursery Memories) I. -- The First Funeral
01:31 - Chapter 18
(Nursey Memories) II. -- The Adventure
01:10 - Chapter 19
(Nursery Memories) III. -- I Hate the Moon
01:01 - Chapter 20
Big Words
01:23 - Chapter 21
The Dead Foxhunter
01:23 - Chapter 22
It's a Queer Time
01:53 - Chapter 23
1915
00:59 - Chapter 24
Over the Brazier
01:39