Some Desperate Glory (31 page)

‘I love music':
ibid.
, p. 255.

‘a chamber of horrors':
ibid.
, p. 285.

‘glowed with a strange': Hassall,
Edward Marsh
, p. 281.

‘I dislike London': Rosenberg,
Selected Poems
, p. 131.

‘clogged up with gold dust':
ibid.
, p. 133.

‘Think of me':
ibid.
, p. 134.

‘how I love': Julian Grenfell,
Julian Grenfell, Soldier & Poet: Letters and Diaries 1910–1915
, ed. Kate Thompson (Hertford 2004), p. 93.

‘must be a raving lunatic':
ibid.
, p. 94.

‘Isn't it an exciting':
ibid.
, p. 211.

‘wonderful speech':
ibid.
, p. 213.

1914

‘that I should be blown': Hassall,
Brooke
, p. 457.

‘Rupert, you':
ibid.

‘the general idea': Charlton and Charlton,
Putting Poetry First
, p. 39.

‘the only thing': Egremont,
Sassoon
, p. 63.

‘since getting the commission': Sorley,
Letters
, p. 225.

‘fine fettle': Brigadier General J. L. Jack,
General Jack's Diary 1914–1918
, ed. John Terraine (London 1964), p. 22.

‘War is the great scavenger': Samuel Hynes,
War Imagined: The First War and English Culture
(London 1990), pp. 12–14.

‘Heaven knows how long': Egremont,
Sassoon
, p. 65.

‘For the joke of seeing': Sorley,
Letters
, p.
227.

‘a grand place': Richard Perceval Graves,
Robert Graves:
The Assault Heroic
(London paperback edn 1995), p. 117.

‘all these days': Brooke,
Collected Poems
, p. cxxv.

‘guarding a footbridge': Hassall,
Brooke
, p. 458.

‘if Armageddon is on':
ibid.,
p.
459.

‘I wanted to use':
ibid.

‘for us a national duty': Martin Gilbert,
Winston Churchill
, vol. III (London 1971), p. 110.

‘last letters': Brooke,
Collected Poems
, p. cxxviii.

‘My dear, it did bring home':
ibid.

‘the rotten ones':
ibid.
, p. cxxx.

‘a witness to one': Hassall,
Brooke
, p. 466.

‘half the youth':
ibid.

‘the wicked folly': Gilbert,
Churchill
, vol. III, p. 130.

‘in a swaggering way':
ibid.
, p. 132.

‘the sight of Belgium': Hassall,
Brooke
, p. 471.

‘the central purpose':
ibid.

‘England is remarkable': Brooke,
Collected Poems
, p. cxxxii.

‘It's all the best fun': Grenfell,
Letters and Diaries
, p. 223.

‘it is all the most wonderful fun': Mosley,
Julian Grenfell
, p. 237.

‘One's nerves are really':
ibid.
, p. 241.

‘I've never seen':
ibid.

‘laughing and talking':
ibid.
, p. 242.

‘105 partridges':
ibid.
, p. 243.

‘Isn't it luck':
ibid.
, p. 245.

‘the happiest I have': Charlton and Charlton,
Putting Poetry First
, p. 39.

‘Honestly & bar all rotting': G. Harbord to Sassoon, 15 December 1914, Imperial War Museum.

1915

‘We don't seem': Sorley,
Letters
, p. 225.

‘rough … good': Brooke,
Collected Poems
, p. cxxxvi.

‘I've never been quite':
ibid.
, p. cxxxviii.

‘I am thinking': Rosenberg,
Collected Works
, p. 216.

‘I do now most intensely': Owen,
Collected Letters
, p. 341.

‘a little ugliness':
ibid.

‘Do you know':
ibid.
, p. 367.

‘I seem without a footing':
ibid.
, p. 320.

‘A young writer': Hassall,
Brooke
, p.
502.

‘Mind you take care':
ibid.
, p. 496.

‘knightly presence': Sir Ian Hamilton,
Gallipoli Diary
, vol. I (London 1920), p. 71.

‘unperceptive': Hassall,
Brooke
, p. 501.

‘happy force':
ibid.
, p. 503.

‘very incomparable': Brooke,
Collected Poems
, p. clviii.

‘like madness': Hassall,
Brooke
, p. 516.

‘far too obsessed': Sorley,
Letters
, p. 263.

‘romanticism he so hated': Hassall,
Brooke
, p.
520.

‘inspired by romantic thoughts': P. N. Furbank,
E. M. Forster: A Life
, vol. II:
Polycrates' Ring
(London 1978), p. 19.

‘I got Brooke's poems'; Grenfell,
Letters
and Diaries
, p. 267.

‘to disguise the Cavalry Corps':
ibid.,
p.
270.

‘You should have seen': Mosley,
Julian Grenfell
, p. 247.

‘I wish they'd let me':
ibid.

‘a very hot day':
ibid.
, p. 252.

‘although I like':
ibid.

‘petrified':
ibid.

‘divine':
ibid.
, p. 253.

‘wonderful sunny':
ibid.
, p. 256.

‘Wrote poem':
ibid.

‘You once gave me':
ibid.
, p. 260.

‘practically wiped out':
ibid.

‘the most radiant smile':
ibid.
, p. 265.

‘extraordinarily living':
ibid.
, p. 266.

‘did not look':
ibid.
, p. 214.

‘it is like a picnic': Sorley,
Letters
, p. 268.

‘in England never':
ibid.
, p. 275.

‘we have seen':
ibid.
, p. 281.

‘The thought, the aspiration': Hollis,
Now All Roads
, p. 227.

‘enlisted or fought':
ibid.

‘curious': Egremont,
Sassoon
, p. 71.

‘Walked into Bethune': Siegfried Sassoon,
Diary 1915–1918
, ed. Rupert Hart-Davis (London 1983), p. 21.

‘I was not anxious': Edmund Blunden,
Undertones of War
(London 1983 edn), p. 3.

‘the vital spot': J. C. Dunn,
The War the Infantry Knew
(London 1994 edn)
,
p.
161.

‘raw enthusiasts':
ibid.

‘mismanagement at the top':
ibid.
, p. 163.

‘on the eve': Sorley,
Letters
, p. 311.

‘exaltation': Robert Nichols (ed.),
Anthology of War Poetry 1914–1918
(London 1943), p. 34.

‘sheer foolery': Charlton and Charlton,
Putting Poetry First
, p. 46.

‘very hard fighting':
ibid.
, p. 51.

‘your heart was':
ibid.

‘I cannot remember': Ivor Gurney,
War Letters
, ed. R. K. R. Thornton (London 1984), pp. 45–6.

‘Rupert Brooke soaked': Hurd,
The Ordeal
, p. 56.

‘Have you read': Gurney,
War Letters
, p. 27.

‘so well': Hollis,
Now All Roads
, p. 251.

‘a criminal thing': Rosenberg,
Collected Works
, p. 216.

‘I thought if I'd join':
ibid.
, p. 227.

1916

‘a stupid rightness': Wells,
Mr Britling
, p. 296.

‘very fine country': Cambridge University Library Add 9454/3/583.

‘It seems ridiculous': Egremont,
Sassoon
, p. 80.

‘since they shot Tommy': Sassoon,
Diary 1915–1918
, p.
52.

‘These six months': Egremont,
Sassoon
, p. 91.

‘I think S.S.'s verses':
ibid.
, p. 85.

‘hate': Sassoon,
Diary 1915–1918
, p.
52.

‘O yes, this is': Egremont,
Sassoon
, pp. 88–9.

‘it gave me': Hurd,
The Ordeal
, p. 54.

‘nowhere could I':
ibid.

‘I am not greatly':
ibid.
, p. 60.

‘We go tomorrow':
ibid.
, p. 63.

‘curious names':
ibid.
, p. 64.

‘This kind of life': Rosenberg,
Selected Poems and Letters
, p. 146.

‘Believe me the army': Rosenberg,
Collected Works
, p. 230.

‘my being a Jew': Rosenberg,
Selected Poems and Letters
, p. 141.

‘not quite certain': Jean Moorcroft Wilson,
Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet
(London 2008), p. 281.

‘some weeks before': Graves,
Complete Poems
, vol. I (Manchester 1995), pp. 39–40.

‘a pointless feat': Graves,
Goodbye to All That
, p. 188.

‘Won't they leave us': Egremont,
Sassoon
, p. 106.

‘never had shells': Blunden,
Undertones of War
, p. 104.

‘as Lazarus was':
ibid.
, p. 95.

‘feat of arms':
ibid.
, p. 103.

‘the Somme raised': Charles Edmonds (Charles Carrington),
A Subaltern's War
(London 1929), pp. 35 and 19.

‘Phoebus Apollo': Lady Desborough,
Pages from a Family Journal
1888–1915
(Eton 1916), p. 556.

‘It's a toss up': Moorcroft Wilson,
Rosenberg
, p.
325.

‘Now began three months': F. E. Whitton,
The History of the 40th Division
(Aldershot 1926), p. 42.

‘budding genius': Moorcroft Wilson,
Rosenberg
, p. 331.

‘we have pups': Rosenberg,
Selected Poems and Letters
, p. 146.

‘the happiest for years': Gurney,
War Letters
, p. 75.

‘Floreat Gloucestriensis':
ibid.

‘my dear lady':
ibid.

‘the Army is an awful life':
ibid.
, p. 70.

‘a delight of rolling country':
ibid.
, p. 82.

‘We suffer pain':
ibid.
, p. 113.

‘how physically unsophisticated': Harold Owen,
Journey from Obscurity
, vol. III (Oxford 1965), p. 134.

‘animal sports': Owen,
Collected Letters
, pp. 392–3.

‘always humorous': Thomas,
The Annotated
Collected Poems
, p. 282.

‘the most depressed man':
ibid.

‘I don't believe': Hollis,
Now All Roads
, p. 294.

‘run risks':
ibid.
, p. 295.

1917

‘the wholesale slaughter': David Jones,
In Parenthesis
(London 2010 edn), p. ix.

‘There is a fine': Owen,
Collected Letters
, p. 421.

‘Have no anxiety':
ibid.
, p. 427.

‘I suppose I can':
ibid.
, pp. 431–2.

‘remember that': Helen Thomas,
Under Storm's Wing
(Manchester 1988), p. 172.

‘Am I to stay': Edward Thomas,
The Childhood of Edward Thomas
(London 1983 edn), p. 164.

‘It was just another': Hollis,
Now All Roads
, p. 327.

‘I haven't met': Egremont,
Sassoon
, p. 123.

‘I never understood': Thomas,
The Childhood of Edward Thomas
, p. 176.

‘capable of the most suicidal exploits': Egremont,
Sassoon
, p. 131.

‘and give my afternoons': Owen,
Collected Letters
, p. 446.

‘going over the top':
ibid.
, p. 458.

‘for twelve days':
ibid.
, p. 452.

‘shaky and tremulous': Dominic Hibberd,
Wilfred Owen
(London 2002), p. 242.

‘completely hopeless': Moorcroft Wilson,
Rosenberg
, p. 281.

‘the severance of all':
ibid.
, p. 360.

‘elemental': Rosenberg,
Selected Poems and Letters
, p. 35.

‘more boisterously happy': Moorcroft Wilson,
Rosenberg
, p. 369.

‘I cannot keep out': Hurd,
The Ordeal
, p. 97.

‘a garden to dig in':
ibid.
, p. 98.

‘precious little of value': Gurney,
War Letters
, p. 159.

‘a great loss':
ibid.
, p. 158.

‘very interesting':
ibid.
, p. 178.

‘hardly any':
ibid.

‘It is good news':
ibid.
, p. 180.

‘a darling land':
ibid.
, p.
186.

‘I hope you will send':
ibid.
, p. 187.

‘aggression and conquest': for the statement see Sassoon,
Diaries
1915–1918
, p. 173.

‘completely mad': Egremont,
Sassoon
, p. 152.