Familiar Letter to Siegfried Sassoon

Item

Title

Familiar Letter to Siegfried Sassoon

Identifier

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Creator

Graves, Robert (1895-1985)

Abstract

This poem was sent in reply to Sassoon's ""A Letter Home" (in "The Old Huntsman"(1917)) written to Graves in May 1916. See "Goodbye to All That" for the background to it's composition, during the Battle of the Somme.

Date

July 1916

Date Created

1916-07-01

Temporal Coverage

1916-07-31

Spatial Coverage

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Type

Poem

Contributor

Everett Sharp

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Subject

Imperial Forces
Somme
Trench