Some Desperate Glory (32 page)

‘we should all die': Blunden,
Undertones
, p. 165.

‘aim in war': Owen,
Collected Letters
, p. 467.

‘a great child':
ibid.
, p.
482.

‘I have just been':
ibid.
, pp. 484–5.

‘modest and ingratiating': Siegfried Sassoon,
Siegfried's Journey
(London 1945), p. 58.

‘talks as badly': Owen,
Collected Letters
, p.
487.

‘cut capers':
ibid.
, p. 489.

‘I hate washy pacifists':
ibid.
, p.
498.

‘damn fine': Jon Stallworthy,
Wilfred Owen
(London 1974), p. 229.

‘Captain Graves': Owen,
Collected Letters
, p. 499.

‘I go out of':
ibid.
, p. 521.

‘almost a laughing matter': Blunden,
Undertones
, p. 165.

‘the general grossness':
ibid.

‘mournful passion': Ann Thwaite,
Edmund Gosse
(London 1984), p. 471.

‘Nichols, Graves and Sassoon': Robert Graves,
In Broken Images: Selected Letters 1914–1946
, ed. Paul O'Prey (London 1982), p. 74.

‘When Rupert Brooke': Gurney,
War Letters
, p. 232.

‘I don't think R.G.': Sassoon,
Diaries 1915–1918
, p. 195.

‘an incomprehensible look': Owen,
Collected Letters
, p. 521.

‘an attempt to show': Egremont,
Sassoon
, p. 175.

the new Rupert Brooke: Harry Ricketts,
Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War
(London 2010), p. 129.

‘offensive to come back': Cynthia Asquith,
Diaries 1915–1918
(London 1968), p. 381.

‘raved and screamed': Charlton and Charlton,
Putting Poetry First
, p. 71.

‘Sassoon has power': Rosenberg,
Collected Works
, p. 267.

‘I am back in the trenches':
ibid.

1918

‘quiet little person': Hibberd,
Owen
, p. 298.

‘the immense desire': Ernst Jünger,
Storm of Steel
(London 2003 edn), p. 232.

‘We will become': Rosenberg,
Selected Poems and Letters
, p. 175.

‘How small a thing': Rosenberg,
Collected Works
, p. 298.

‘With our backs': for this see Duff Cooper,
Haig
, vol. II (London 1936), p. 275.

‘I knew I should': Vera Brittain,
Testament of Youth
(London 1933), p. 420.

‘my little friend': Notes for
Siegfried's Journey
, Sassoon collection, Cambridge University Library.

‘have done just':
ibid.

‘the best poet': Egremont,
Sassoon
, p.
196.

‘damned hankering':
ibid.
, p. 205.

‘a portrait of war':
ibid.
, p. 204.

‘safe smugness':
ibid.
, p. 206.

‘what would he':
Times Literary Supplement
, 8 August 1918.

‘a disgraceful sloppy': Virginia Woolf,
Diary
,
vol. I:
1915–1919
, ed. Anne Olivier Bell (London 1977), p. 171.

‘piece' of England: Owen,
Collected Letters
, p. 570.

‘When I go':
ibid.
, p. 430.

‘I lost all':
ibid.
, p. 580.

‘every word, every figure':
Collected Letters
, p. 510.

‘I came out':
ibid.
, p. 580.

‘It is a great':
ibid.
, p. 591.

‘a loathsome ending': Sassoon,
Diaries 1915–1918
, p. 282.

‘the tall Shelley-like': Webb,
Blunden
, p. 56.

‘I am glad': Gurney,
War Letters
, p. 261.

‘you'll have to': Graves,
The Assault Heroic
, p. 198.

‘cursing and sobbing': Graves,
Goodbye to All That
, p. 248.

‘icebergs': Charlton and Charlton,
Putting Poetry First
, p. 86.

‘very much I think':
ibid.
, p. 87.

A
FTERMATH

‘youth, charm, genius': manuscript at Rugby School.

‘ablest of men': Virginia Woolf,
Letters
,
vol. III, ed. Nigel Nicolson (London 1977), p. 178.

‘A great pamphlet':
Nation
, 6 December 1919.

‘mere journalism':
London Mercury
, December 1919.

‘every word, every figure': Owen,
Collected Letters
, p. 510.

‘I don't want': see Wilfred Owen,
The Complete Poems and Fragments
, ed. Jon Stallworthy, 2 vols (London 2013 edn), vol. I, p. 193.

‘wonderfully normal': Hurd,
The Ordeal
, p. 132.

‘detested mere cleverness': Edward Thomas,
Collected Poems
(London 1920), p. v.

‘It was wireless': Hurd,
The Ordeal
, p. 168.

‘It is too late':
ibid.
, p. 169.

‘I hope it may': Edward Marsh (ed.),
Georgian Poetry 1918–19
(London 1919), prefatory note.

‘Taste. Good taste': H. G. Wells,
Men Like Gods
(London 1923), p. 29.

‘concerned with Nature': Richard Perceval Graves,
Robert Graves: The Years with Laura Riding
1926–40
(London paperback edn 1995), p. 44.

‘Did we believe': Virginia Woolf,
Diary
, vol. II:
1920–1924
, ed. Anne Olivier Bell (London 1978), p. 297.

‘Of the many young poets': Isaac Rosenberg,
Poems
, ed. Gordon Bottomley (London 1922), p. 1.

‘windy': Moorcroft Wilson,
Rosenberg
, p. 378.

‘a fruitful fusion': Rosenberg,
Poems
, p. ix.

‘poor little Isaac': Edward Marsh and Christopher Hassall,
Ambrosia and Small Beer: The Record of a Correspondence between Edward Marsh and Christopher Hassall
, arranged by Christopher Hassall (London 1964), p. 53.

‘a trumpet call': the Earl of Lytton,
Antony (Viscount Knebworth): A Record of Youth
(London 1935), p. 568.

‘It's what Sassoon': John Middleton Murry,
Letters of John Middleton Murry to Katherine Mansfield
,
ed. C. A. Hankin (London 1983), p. 234.

‘profound humanity': Egremont,
Sassoon
, p. 257.

‘one of the few': ‘The Real War',
Athenaeum
, 10 December 1920.

‘the industrial towns': Stephen Spender,
The Destructive Element
(London 1935), pp. 220–1.

‘the Rupert Brooke': Stephen Spender,
The Thirties and After
(London 1978), p. 17.

‘unworthy of the poets' corner': Jon Stallworthy, ‘Yeats as Anthologist', in A. Norman Jeffares and K. G. W. Cross (eds),
In Excited Reverie: A Centenary Tribute to W. B. Yeats
(London 1965), p. 190.

‘unreadable, vague':
ibid.
, p. 183.

‘and always with loud': W. B. Yeats (ed.),
The
Oxford Book of Modern Verse
(Oxford 1936), p. xxxv.

‘the old men': Christopher Isherwood,
Diaries
, vol. I:
1939–60
, ed. Katherine Bucknell (London 1996), p. 5.

‘in an ecstasy': Samuel Hynes,
The Auden Generation
(London 1976), p. 21.

‘If I can be': Robert Graves,
But It Still Goes On
(London 1930), p. 155.

‘the truth by a condensation': Graves,
The Assault Heroic
, p. 288.

‘Do you know how': Graves,
But It Still Goes On
, p. 245.

‘strike a responsive chord': Edmonds,
A Subaltern's War
, pp. 8–9.

‘all we can do': Graves,
Goodbye to All That
, p. 275.

‘a terrific comet': Ritchie,
Strange Meetings
, p. 212.

‘mad': Charlton and Charlton,
Putting Poetry First
, pp. 95–6.

‘the great love':
ibid.
, p. 214.

‘the sound of my': Marsh and Hassall,
Ambrosia and Small Beer
, p. 213.

‘you'll find a tea cake': Nichols (ed.),
Anthology of War Poetry
, p. 17.

‘acceptance rather than': Alan Ross,
Blindfold Games
(London 1986), p. 239.

‘symbolic poetry': Egremont,
Sassoon
, p. 483.

‘I destroyed them': Robert Graves,
Conversations with Robert Graves
, ed. Frank L. Kersnowski (Jackson, Miss., and London 1989), p. 96.

‘Sassoon's idealism': Robert Graves and Spike Milligan,
Dear Robert, Dear Spike: The Graves–Milligan Correspondence
, ed. Pauline Scudamore (Stroud 1991), p. 94.

‘How right dear Robbie': Egremont,
Sassoon
, p. 478.

‘the most unspeakably horrible': George A. Panichas (ed.),
Promise of Greatness
(London 1968), p. 8.

‘given me not only':
ibid.
, p. 11.

‘People like reading': Graves,
But It Still Goes On
, p. 15.

‘many thoughts and mentions': Sassoon and Blunden,
Selected Letters
, vol. III, p. 315.

‘complete': Jack,
General Jack's Diary
, pp. 306–7.

 

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_______
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_______
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