Sassoon Journals : Poems: by Siegfried Sassoon

Sassoon Journals

Notebook comprising fair copies, with some revisions, of poems by Siegfried Sassoon, together with illustrations and decorations. Some of the poems bear the date of their composition. Sassoon presented the notebook to Lady Ottoline Morrell in January 1917 and made additions to it in subsequent years. Contents:Preliminary matter:<ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(3);return false;'>1r</a>. ‘To victory’ (newspaper cutting from The Times, 15 Jan. 1916)</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(7);return false;'>1v</a>. Feather</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(8);return false;'>2r</a>. Title page</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(9);return false;'>2v</a>. ‘Edition’ statement and date</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(10);return false;'>3r</a>. Dedication</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(11);return false;'>3v</a>. Epigraph: excerpt from Emily Brontë, ‘The prisoner. A fragment’ (stanza 10)</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(12);return false;'>4r</a>. Epigraph: excerpt from Thomas Traherne, Centuries (meditation 3, century 3)</li></ul>Poetry:<ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(14);return false;'>5r</a>. ‘A mystic as soldier’</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(18);return false;'>7r-10r</a>. ‘The death bed’</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(28);return false;'>12r-23r</a>. ‘The last meeting’</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(54);return false;'>25r</a>. ‘Before day’, 1909</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(56);return false;'>26r</a>. ‘At Carnoy’, 3 July 1916</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(58);return false;'>27r</a>. ‘Secret music’</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(62);return false;'>29r-30r</a>. ‘The road’</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(66);return false;'>31r</a>. ‘Two hundred years after’</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(68);return false;'>32r</a>. ‘Butterflies’, Aug. 1918</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(70);return false;'>33r</a>. ‘Vision’, Aug. 1918</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(72);return false;'>34r</a>. ‘Idyll’, Feb. 1918</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(74);return false;'>35r</a>. “I stood with the Dead, so forsaken and still...”, June 1918</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(76);return false;'>36r</a>. ‘Reconciliation’, Oct. 1918</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(80);return false;'>38r</a>. ‘Slumber song’, Dec. 1918</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(82);return false;'>39r</a>. ‘Wraiths’, Sept. 1918</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(84);return false;'>40r-42r</a>. ‘Limitations’, Sept. 1919</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(88);return false;'>Between 41v and 42r</a>. ‘Everyone sang’, 12 Apr. 1919</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(94);return false;'>44r</a>. ‘Clavichord recital’, Sept. 1922</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(96);return false;'>45r</a>. ‘Vigil’, July 1922</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(98);return false;'>46r</a>. ‘Invocation’ [The heart’s journey, I], Nov. 1923</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(100);return false;'>47r</a>. ‘Prelude’ [The heart’s journey, VII], Dec. 1923</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(103);return false;'>Between 47v and 48r</a>. ‘To an old lady, dead’</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(105);return false;'>48r</a>. ‘All-souls day’ [The heart’s journey, XXVIII], Sept. 1925</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(107);return false;'>49r</a>. ‘Presences perfected’</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(109);return false;'>50r</a>. “The mind of man environing its thought...”</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(112);return false;'>51v</a>. “My past has gone to bed. Upstairs in clockless rooms...”</li></ul>Images:<ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(16);return false;'>6r</a>. ‘The skies were mine...’</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(26);return false;'>11r</a>. ‘... silence in the summer night ..’</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(52);return false;'>24r</a>. ‘... my body is the magic of the world ...’</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(60);return false;'>28r</a>. ‘Death in his carnival ...’</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(78);return false;'>37r</a>. ‘I stood with the Dead ....’</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(92);return false;'>43r</a>. ‘... When tree-tops loomed enchanted for a child ...’</li></ul>Statement:<ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(143);return false;'>Between 66v and rear cover</a>. A typescript copy of Sassoon's statement against the conduct of the War, July 1917</li></ul>N.B. The foliation used in this description is the archivist's. Sassoon also foliated some leaves in the volume.This item was acquired and digitised with funding from the Friends of Cambridge University Library