#dr rivers

[mr-oscarwilde]

He seems so gentle.

[thefoxhuntingman]

Was cheered up yesterday by a nice letter from Robert Graves, containing a few helpful suggestions for the improvement of 'Primitive Ritual'. He is an admirable critic of the shape of a poem, and understands my methods. At present he is strong on the theory of conflict (acquired from Rivers) and reads conflict-interpretation into everything.

Siegfried Sassoon, diary entry dated February 10, 1924

[thefoxhuntingman]

Pat Barker, Regeneration (Siegfried Sassoon & Wilfred Owen's conversation).

[thefoxhuntingman]

The only news today was that my MS. Book fetched £400. It's a scrubby little notebook which I had at Craiglockhart – interesting only through associations – Wilfred Owen handled it, & Rivers, & it was sent to Robbie Ross to give to the publisher – and I added nine more afterwards. At this rate, what would they pay for my beautifully written manuscripts? How I dislike all this money-making in the arts. It has no relation to the glory of creativeness, & is ruled by fashion.

from Siegfried Sassoon’s letter to Felicitas Corrigan (13 December 1961)

[thefoxhuntingman]

I should like to meet Rivers in 'the next world'. It is difficult to believe that such a man as he could be extinguished.

Siegfried Sassoon's diary, 1952

[thefoxhuntingman]

So Doctor Rivers is now causing some stir in Westeros...

[thefoxhuntingman]

In November 1943, he wrote to H.M. Tomlinson about faith and his belief in the 'persistence and survival of loveliness'. He had hints of help 'from outside', sometimes on the edge of sleep, a presence or a voice like that of the dead T.E. Lawrence and, once Max Beerbohm's sister Dora, a nun; he had the sense also of Rivers. To accept God unconditionally was, he thought, 'dangerous' because it precluded the search. For 'one must bathe on – doubting and hoping, and awaiting the corroboration required!'

Max Egremont, Siegfried Sassoon

mayakovsky6 – this is what I’ve found so far

[thefoxhuntingman]

One evening I asked whether he [Rivers] thought I was suffering from shell-shock. 'Certainly not,' he replied. 'What have I got then?' 'Well, you appear to be suffering from an anti-war complex.'

Siegfried Sassoon, Sherston’s Progress