Enclosure – Letter from LR to RG about his Hostage poem
Page from Robert Graves diary manuscript. The diary includes 1,546 pages with 117 enclosures: letters, clippings, photographs post cards, notes, games.
- In Collection:
- 1 page : 12 x 19.5 cm or smaller
- The diary is written on quarto sheets, folded horizontally to form octavo booklets, one recto page devoted to each day.
- Robert Graves Diary, 1935-1939
- Accession Number: 1969-003, Item: Gr-1-1480
- Special Collection finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/robert-graves-collection
- Robert Graves Diary project URL: http://graves.uvic.ca/diary_1939-03-01_02_enc.html
- July 19, 2002
- Enclosure – Letter from LR to RG about his Hostage poem Dearest Robert March 1 seems right for answering your letter of January 16. Let's call it a World birthday (the world seems to forgotten that it has one). About your Hostage poem. You're wrong about the guns. You tried to state is? this the Joke, but the joke isn't that you're a hostage in this fortress, I think, but rather: The fortress fancies it is besieged, the guns are its own. You beg the commander not to fire: 'The enemy is a friend'. You're wrong really to do that: the guns must be spent. Then only do they the fortress windows for looking out of. Don't pretend you haven't had guns of your own and locked away – set them all off. Yours for love and peace to the poor sun-gods and all that bottling up Laura
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