Robert Graves 
Fairies and Fusiliers (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

This 1917 collection of poems focuses on Graves’s World War I experiences and his friendships with such fellow poet-soldiers as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.  The poems detail the horrors of war while celebrating the bonds between soldiers. Included in the collection are: “Goliath and David, ” “When I’m Killed, ” and “Letter to S. S. from Mametz Wood, ” among others.

About the author

Robert Graves (1895-1985) was a British novelist, poet, translator, and scholar. His iconoclastic study of poetic myth-making, The White Goddess (1948) has been a sourcebook for generations of poets and writers.  His most famous works are the historical novels I, Claudius (1934) and its sequel, Claudius the God (1935)—for which he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1934—and his autobiography, Goodbye to All That.