cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8pp9.2
title: Note on 'Attack'

description: Note in black ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand explaining that the poem 'Attack' had been published in 'The Cambridge Magazine' on 20th October 1917. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8tvu.2
title: The Picture Book

description: 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian9qt.2
title: Dicky

description: 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianbjt.1
title: Letter: To Sydney Schiff.

description: Autographed letter in pencil from Private Isaac Rosenberg, 22311, A Company, 3rd Platoon, 11th KORL, BEF. Discusses poem sent to H. W. Massingham at the 'Nation' / books at the front / 'Georgian Poetry' / poetry / reasons for not dating letters.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand1k8.2
title: Wirers

description: Clipping of poem from 'The Hydra', the journal edited by Sassoon at the Craiglockhart War Hospital. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand2ln.2
title: Essex Farm Cemetery

description: Grave of Private V. J. Strudwick, '5750 Rifleman V. J. Strudwick The Rifle Brigade 14th January 1916 Age 15'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand7h8.2
title: Menin Gate

description: Inscription at top (view from town side), 'To the armies of the British Empire who stood here from 1914 to 1918 and to those of their dead who have no known grave'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand8uc.1
title: The Unicorn

description: Pencil draft of the second version of the verse play, containing drafts of 'Tel's song'. On two halves of page taken from an exercise book, the halves making up a complete sheet. Isaac Rosenberg abandoned work on 'The Amulet' in July of 1917, and used many lines of the former verse play for 'The Unicorn'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandd4e.2
title: The Fathers

description: Clipping of poem from 'The Cambridge Magazine'. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandfxk.2
title: US 30th Division Memorial to soldiers of Tennessee

description: Near northern entrance to St Quentin Canal tunnel.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtf1.2
title: Twelve Months After

description: Manuscript of poem in blue and black ink with corrections in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandyad.2
title: Country at War

description: 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianf3p.2
title: The Leveller

description: 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianfbi.2
title: Menin Road

description: Hellfire Corner.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj5xr.2
title: Riqueval Farm Bridge

description: View from west bank, looking northeast.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj6lp.2
title: Essex Farm Cemetery

description: Grave of Private V. J. Strudwick in centre.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7f6.2
title: Note on 'The Fathers'

description: Note in black ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand explaining that the poem 'The Fathers' had been published in 'The Cambridge Magazine' on 13th October 1917. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjcrw.2
title: Menin Road

description: Hellfire Corner.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjer8.2
title: German bunker, St Quentin Canal tunnel

description: Entrance to bunker in east wall, near northern entrance to canal tunnel.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjjun.1
title: Letter: To Joseph Leftwich.

description: Pencil draft of autographed letter from Isaac Rosenberg written while recovering from influenza at the 51 General Hospital, describing life in hospital / friends' wounds / poetry. Written on the back of paper headed 'YMCA / On Active Service / WITH THE BRITISH / EXPEDITIONARY FORCE'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjo53.2
title: Night March

description: 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjojt.2
title: Menin Road

description: Menin Road, looking east, away from Ypres.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjvk8.1
title: The Unicorn (complete draft)

description: Pencil draft the first version of the verse play, with 12 additional lines. On half-sheets of paper which are muddy and creased, and in places illegible.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjy1w.2
title: Attack

description: Clipping of poem from 'The Cambridge Magazine'. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiankts.2
title: How To Die

description: Manuscript of poem in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Sassoon notes on the facing page that the poem had been published in 'The Cambridge Magazine' on 6th October 1917. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianxtd.2
title: Western Front Association Memorial on Riqueval Farm Bridge

description: Inscription reads 'On September 29 1918 the British 46th (North Midland) Division attacked the powerful defences of the ""Hindenburg Line"" A Company of the 6/North Staffordshire Regiment (137th Brigade) and a detachment of the Royal Engineers seized the Riqueval Farm Bridge, the last one left intact across the St Quentin Canal, an important feature of the German defences. This greatly assisted the forward flow of sappers to complete the successful storming of the ""Siegfried Position"" inaugurating the last chase of the victorious final offensive of the Allies which ended with the Armistice on November 11'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian253z.2
title: Night March

description: 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2efa.2
title: Essex Farm Cemetery

description: Memorial to John McRae.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2grt.2
title: Lamentations

description: Manuscript of poem in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2jad.2
title: Duties and problems as a  tank section commander.

description: British officer served with 2nd Bn Royal Scots Fusiliers on Western Front, 1916; served with  14th Bn Tank Corps on Western Front, 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2l2v.2
title: Thiepval Memorial

description: Distant view.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2s8q.2
title: Menin Gate

description: Inscription of names of missing.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2sfs.2
title: Merlin and the Child

description: 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian52w.2
title: St Quentin Canal tunnel

description: Northern entrance to canal tunnel, view looking south.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian61bk.2
title: Does It Matter?

description: Manuscript of poem in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Sassoon has noted on the facing page that the poem was published in 'The Cambridge Magazine' on 6th October 1917. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6bho.2
title: The Voice of Beauty Drowned

description: 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6cdq.2
title: US 30th Division Memorial to soldiers of Tennessee

description: Near northern entrance to St Quentin Canal tunnel. Inscription reads 'Ce monument a ete eleve par l'etat de Tennesee USA pour celebrer les soldats de Tennessee de la 50e et 60e Brigade 30e Division'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6go4.2
title: Anglo-French Cemetery behind Thiepval Memorial

description: Central aisle and graves.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6q85.2
title: The General

description: Manuscript in gray and blue ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6y42.2
title: St Martin's Cathedral

description: View of exterior.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian814r.2
title: Menin Gate

description: Buglers from Ypres Fire Brigade playing the Last Post.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83l4.2
title: Note on 'Editorial Impressions'

description: Note in black ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand explaining that the poem 'Editorial Impressions' was published in 'The Cambridge Magazine' on 22nd September 1917. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian848m.2
title: Note on 'Base Details'

description: Note in black ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand explaining that the poem 'Base Details' had been published in 'The Cambridge Magazine' on 28th April [1917] and reprinted in 'The Herald' on 20th May [1917]. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8aj.1
title: Letter: To Sonia Cohen / In the Trenches

description: Autographed letter from 22311, A Company, 3rd Platoon, 11th Battalion, KORL, BEF. Discusses post / poetry / leave/ learning French. Second page contains a pencil copy of 'In the Trenches'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8qhl.2
title: Peace

description: 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8rbo.2
title: Note on 'Does It Matter?'

description: Note in black ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand explaining that the poem 'Does it Matter?' was published in 'The Cambridge Magazine' on 6th October 1917. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8w5u.1
title: Letter: To Sydney Schiff.

description: Letter in pencil and ink. Discusses poems for sale / experience with a nearby exploding bomb.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8zoz.2
title: Anglo-French Cemetery behind Thiepval Memorial

description: French grave of unknown soldier marked 'Inconnu' (close-up).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand2bw.2
title: Here They Lie

description: 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4v4.2
title: Trench warfare and life at Bathune. Problems of lice.

description: British officer served with 2nd Bn Royal Scots Fusiliers on Western Front, 1916; served with  14th Bn Tank Corps on Western Front, 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand7mh.2
title: Night March

description: 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianda3j.2
title: Note on 'Fight To A Finish'

description: Note in black ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand explaining that the poem 'Fight To A Finish' was published in 'The Cambridge Magazine' on 27th October 1917. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandj7h.2
title: Anglo-French Cemetery behind Thiepval Memorial

description: French graves.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandlvd.1
title: Letter: To David Rosenberg.

description: Autographed letter in pencil from Private Isaac Rosenberg, 22311, 8th Platoon, B Company, 1st KORL, BEF. Written on a page torn from a notebook. Discusses lost letter / 'Georgian Poetry' / Gordon Bottomley / Herbert Asquith / John Masefield.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandmt3.2
title: Menin Gate

description: Inscription of names of the missing.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandvil.2
title: Albert-Bapaume Road

description: View facing Bapaume with La Boisselle to the right. The road is on the Tara-Usna Line, near the Somme.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiang8g.2
title: Menin Gate

description: View from Menin Road.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiangf7.2
title: The Voice of Beauty Drowned

description: 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj2xc.2
title: Base Details

description: Manuscript of poem in gray and blue ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean copy without corrections. Sassoon notes on the facing page that the poem was published in 'The Cambridge Magazine' on 28th April [1917] and reprinted in 'The Herald' on 20th May [1917]. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj3io.2
title: Anglo-French Cemetery behind Thiepval Memorial

description: Cross and view of Memorial.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj6bv.2
title: Bazentin 1916

description: 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj9t7.2
title: Menin Gate

description: Inscription on left pillar (town side) reads, 'Pro Patria'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjcmj.2
title: Bazentin 1916

description: 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjm3d.2
title: Fight To A Finish

description: Manuscript of poem in blue ink with corrections in black ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. Sassoon notes on the facing page that the poem was published in 'The Cambridge Magazine' on 27th October 1917. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjqvu.2
title: Describes British attack on the Somme, October 12th 1916

description: British officer served with 2nd Bn Royal Scots Fusiliers on Western Front, 1916; served with  14th Bn Tank Corps on Western Front, 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjr7j.2
title: Thiepval Memorial

description: View of exterior.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianju73.1
title: Letter: To R. C. Trevelyan.

description: Autographed letter in pencil from Private Isaac Rosenberg with the address scored through by censor, written on a page torn from a notebook. On part of the letter, where Isaac Rosenberg's writing has become worn, it has been over-written by Annie Rosenberg. Discusses Gordon Bottomley's criticisms / Lascalles Abercrombie's 'Hymn to Love' / poetry.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiann6o.2
title: Training at Blangy in tank warfare. Using mock tanks made from hessian.

description: British officer served with 2nd Bn Royal Scots Fusiliers on Western Front, 1916; served with  14th Bn Tank Corps on Western Front, 1918
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiannk.2
title: Menin Gate

description: Inscription on right pillar (town side) reads, 'Pro Rege'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr8ff.2
title: Essex Farm Cemetery

description: Grave of Private V. J. Strudwick.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrd5a.1
title: Letter: To Barnett Rosenberg.

description: Typed letter from the Imperial War Graves Commission. Describes location of Isaac Rosenberg's body / inability to identify individuals from remains / marking of graves.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianzrv.2
title: Atrocities

description: Manuscript in black ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand with multiple corrections. The poem has been slashed out with blue pencil. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian21mz.2
title: Glory of Women

description: Manuscript of poem in ink with one correction in pencil in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian222f.2
title: Hate Not, Fear Not

description: 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.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian28nr.2
title: Menin Gate

description: Inscription on pillar to the missing, 'The Royal Fusiliers'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2dgs.2
title: Thiepval Memorial

description: 'Somme 1916' stone wreath and arch.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2e4x.2
title: Drink Your Red Wine

description: 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.