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Siegfried Sassoon

(1886-1967)

See Lady Ottoline’s Album (1976) for cute pics of him (pg 66-67,90-93).


I own about half of these books, so feel free to request photos of whatever you need. My collection is listed on my LibraryThing.

 Bibliography 

Poetry 


  • Poems (1906) -- as Anonymous

  • Orpheus in Diloeryium (1908) -- as Anonymous

  • Sonnets (1909) -- as Anonymous

  • Sonnets and Verses (1909) -- as Anonymous

  • Twelve Sonnets (1911)

  • Poems (1911)

  • Melodies (1912) -- as Anonymous

  • Hyacinth: An Idyll (1912)

  • An Ode for Music (1912)

  • Amyntas (1913)

  • The Daffodil Murderer (1913) -- as Saul Kain

  • Discoveries (1915)

  • Morning-Glory (1916) -- as Anonymous

  • The Redeemer (1916)

  • The Old Huntsman and Other Poems (1917)

  • Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918)

  • The War Poems (1919)

  • Picture-Show (1919, Privately Printed) -- with 7 additional poems (1920)

  • Recreations (1923)

  • Selected Poems (1925)

  • Satirical Poems (1926) -- with 5 additional poems (1933)

  • The Heart's Journey (1927/8) (in Collected Poems 1961)

  • Poems (1931) -- as Pinchbeck Lyre

  • The Road to Ruin (1933) (in Collected Poems 1961)

  • Vigils (1934, Privately Printed) -- with 13 additional poems (1935)

  • Rhymed Ruminations (1939, Privately Printed) -- with 9 additional poems (1940) (in Collected Poems 1961)

  • Poems Newly Selected (1940)

  • Collected Poems (1947) 

  • Common Chords(1950/1951) (in Collected Poems 1961)

  • Emblems of Experience (1951) (in Collected Poems 1961)

  • The Tasking (1954) (in Collected Poems 1961)

  • Sequences (1956) -- Contains Common Chords, Emblems of Experience, and The Tasking.

  • The Path to Peace (1960)

  • Collected Poems 1908–1956 (1961) -- Removes a poem from Common Chords and adds "To My Mother."

  • An Octave (1966)

Loose Poems and Publications:


Includes "Dreamers," "Does It Matter?," "Base Details," and "Glory of Women."

  • "A Suppressed Poem" (1918/1929)  (alternative/full text)

  • "Slumber Song" (1919) in The Yale Review, New Haven. July 1919.

  • "Nativity" (1927) -- An Ariel Poem. Designs by Paul Nash.

  • "To My Mother" (1928) -- An Ariel Poem. Illustrated by Stephen Tennant.

  • "In Sicily" (1927/1930) -- (Poem here) An Ariel Poem. Illustrated by Stephen Tennant. 

  • "To the Red Rose" (1931) -- An Ariel Poem. Illustrated by Stephen Tennant.

  • "Prehistoric Burials" (1932) A Borzoi Chapbook. Illustrated by Witold Gordon

  • Lenten Illuminations and Sight Sufficient (1959)


Memoir and Prose



Diaries



Letters & Other



Contributions


  • Safety Last. (Lt.-Col. W. F. Stirling - 1954)

  • My First Horse

  • Poems by Wilfred Owen

  • etc tba

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