posted on 2024-04-24, 14:38authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Manuscript of poem in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Sassoon notes on the facing page that the poem had been published in 'The Cambridge Magazine' on 6th October 1917. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.
History
Creator
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Date
1917 to 1919
Source
Folio
Medium
Paper
Format
Pen
Type
Poem
Pages
12
Number of Pages
1
Contributor
Alisa Miller
Rights
The Harry Ransom Center / The Siegfried Sassoon Literary Estate
Collection ID
The Siegfried Sassoon Collection
Repository Name
The Harry Ransom Center
Repository Address
The University of Texas at Austin, 21st and Guadalupe Streets, Austin, Texas, 78712, USA