68564: The Redeemer

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posted on 2024-04-24, 14:21 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Typescript of poem in blue ink with a note in pencil: 'This version received 4 May 1916'. Published in 'The Old Huntsman' (1917). This is Siegfried Sassoon's first front-line poem, describing working parties at and near Festubert.

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Identifier

9616.jpg | SSCUL11_Add.7973_S_72.jpg

Creator

Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967)

Date

7th to 10th March 1916

Date Created

06/03/1912

Temporal Date

09/03/1912

Spatial

Rouen

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Typescript

Type

Poem

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

Cambridge University Library / The Siegfried Sassoon Literary Estate

Collection ID

MS Add. 7973/S/72

Repository Name

Cambridge University Library

Repository Address

Department of Manuscripts, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DR, UK

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First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Poems

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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