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Do Not Stand and Weep at My Grave
Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Saunders, Paul
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Near Fine |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | Very Good |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Souvenir Press |
| Publication Year: | 2002 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| ISBN: | 9780285633353 |
| Book ID: | 010193 |
| Catalogue(s): | Poetry, Poetical Criticism and Poets ◇ War, Military History and Weapons |
Unpaginated, circa 30pp, with pencil sketch illustrations on every other page. In grey cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. In as new condition throughout. In its original dust jacket (a little bumped along upper edge, slightly faded towards top edge). 16mo. The poem printed in this volume, by an unknown author, was found in an envelope left by a soldier killed by an exploding mine near Londonderry in 1989. It was read by his father on the BBC TV programme, Bookworm, on Remembrance Sunday in 1995, evoking a huge and warm response. The original author remains a mystery, although several names have been suggested, ranging from J T Wiggins, an Englishman who emigrated to the United States at the end of the 19th century, to an Englishwoman named Mary Fry and an American woman, Marianne Reinhart. A pretty little volume of moving verse.
Keywords:
Poetry
War Poetry
Remembrance Sunday
