Country Sentiment (1920) was Graves' attempt to escape from the horrors of our post-World War I era. He remained haunted by the memory of the war, as were many for the rest of their days, while others were able to wipe the memory and move on.

Brilliant wordplay and forceful feelings, with more so-called children's poems than people tend to remember. While a handful of these poems survived in later collections by the poet, there are many good, ingenious, elegant and "thoroughly English" poems that didn't & yet deserve to be remembered.