PREWETT, Frank (1893-1962). Poems. Richmond: Hogarth Press, for the author, [1921]. 8°. Original cream paper wrappers, unopened. Hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woold. Woolmer 15. PREWETT, Frank (1893-1962). The Rural Scene. London: Heinemann, 1924. 8°. Original brown wrappers, unopened. Frank Prewett, a Canadian who served at Passchendaele, was given lessons in poetry by Siegfried Sassoon, who first took him to Garsington on 9 November 1918. Like Graves, Sassoon and Owen, he was treated for shell-shock by William Rivers at Craiglockhart. Nicknamed 'Toronto', he appeared for a while 'on almost every page' of Ottoline Morrell's journals, and in 1919, she 'installed him in one of the cottages' on the estate, a gesture he misunderstood (Seymour, pp. 308-309). In the early 1920s Robert Graves and his family camped on Prewett's farm, and in 1964 his Collected Poems were edited by Graves. In his Diary for 2 June 1922, Sassoon wrote: 'My intimacy with Toronto Prewett began with a strong sexual attraction (which horrified him when he became aware of it). When that element had been banished (and it evaporated in a most satisfactory way within a few months of our meeting) we established a very solid and sympathetic understanding which ranks very high among the amicabilities of my existence' ( Diaries , II, p.162). Sassoon's poem 'Fancy Dress' is about Prewett. (2)
PREWETT, Frank (1893-1962). Poems. Richmond: Hogarth Press, for the author, [1921]. 8°. Original cream paper wrappers, unopened. Hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woold. Woolmer 15. PREWETT, Frank (1893-1962). The Rural Scene. London: Heinemann, 1924. 8°. Original brown wrappers, unopened. Frank Prewett, a Canadian who served at Passchendaele, was given lessons in poetry by Siegfried Sassoon, who first took him to Garsington on 9 November 1918. Like Graves, Sassoon and Owen, he was treated for shell-shock by William Rivers at Craiglockhart. Nicknamed 'Toronto', he appeared for a while 'on almost every page' of Ottoline Morrell's journals, and in 1919, she 'installed him in one of the cottages' on the estate, a gesture he misunderstood (Seymour, pp. 308-309). In the early 1920s Robert Graves and his family camped on Prewett's farm, and in 1964 his Collected Poems were edited by Graves. In his Diary for 2 June 1922, Sassoon wrote: 'My intimacy with Toronto Prewett began with a strong sexual attraction (which horrified him when he became aware of it). When that element had been banished (and it evaporated in a most satisfactory way within a few months of our meeting) we established a very solid and sympathetic understanding which ranks very high among the amicabilities of my existence' ( Diaries , II, p.162). Sassoon's poem 'Fancy Dress' is about Prewett. (2)
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