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The Greater Love: Poems of Remembrance
1919
Raymond Heywood
London: Elkin Matthews
British
Poetry
39pp
Gay Men, WWI, Military
Open Access
Summary
Poems, several homoerotic, by a lieutenant of the Devonshire Regiment (possibly 10th Battalion).
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Haywood fought in France in 1914 (Pearson's magazine, V.48) as well as Macedonia and Salonika (Lads by Martin Taylor, Constable 1989, p 237).
Raymond also wrote Roses, Pearls, & Tears (1918) Erskine Macdonald, 45 pages, which seems to contain twelve war poems.
His poem "Afterglow" (1918) is in Colour v.9. An untitled poem appears The Sphere v. 77 (1919). "Night at Tangier" (1922) appears in The Windsor Magazine v. 56.
The author also provided the lyrics for the songs "My Dream Moon" (1918) by Harold Leslie and "Laddie wi' the April Eyes" (1920) by Charles Willeby.
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