Sorley's Weather

Item

Title

Identifier

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Creator

Graves, Robert (1895-1985)

Abstract

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).

Date

February 1917

Date Created

1917-02-01

Temporal Coverage

1917-02-28

Spatial Coverage

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Poem

Contributor

Everett Sharp

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Subject

Allied Forces
Somme
Western Front