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Monday, 16 March 2009

Robert Graves: "Parent To Children" - Notes

Graves's diary entries for the poem in September to October 1936
http://graves.uvic.ca/xbrowse.xq?query_stored=false&collection=%2Fdb%2Fgraves%2Fentries&start=1&search_text=-1&type=diaryentry&n=1936-09-21
Notes on these entries
http://graves.uvic.ca/xrequest.xq?new_search=true&action=search&search_text=Parent+to+Children&kw_match=all&returns=10&abstract=on&diaryentry=on&enclosure=on&logentries=on&sort=date&order=ascending&start_day=22&start_month=02&start_year=1935&end_day=06&end_month=05&end_year=1939
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"Captain Corelli's Mandolin"
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