Thrushes
Page description
| Title |
Thrushes
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| Author |
Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967)
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| Notes |
Manuscript of poem in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Included in a bound volume belonging to Sassoon containing a collection of his poems and various watercolours, clippings and autographs. The poem was published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918).
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| Item date |
October 1917
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| Creation place |
Craiglockhart Military Hospital, Edinburgh
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| Item source | |
| Item medium | |
| Writing medium | |
| Content | |
| Page number |
5
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| Total number of pages |
8
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| Cataloguer |
Alisa Miller
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| Filename |
SSHRC_074.jpg
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| Copyright |
The Harry Ransom Center / The Siegfried Sassoon Literary Estate
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| Collection ID |
The Siegfried Sassoon Collection
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| Repository name |
Harry Ransom Center
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| Repository address line1 |
The University of Texas at Austin
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| Repository address line2 |
21st and Guadalupe Streets
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| Repository address line3 |
Austin
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| Repository address county or state |
Texas
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| Repository address Zip code |
78712
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| Repository address country |
USA
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| Repository address URL |
Collection
Citation
“Works 1,” First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/10509.
Permitted Use
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Document description
| Title |
Works 1
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|---|---|
| Author |
Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974) / Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967)
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| Notes |
A selection from a 57 page bound book with watercolor drawings, pasted clippings, and autographs. Early 18th century blue morocco binding with gilt paneled sides. Pasted on flyleaf: cartoon, "A collection of poets outside the Golden Cross." (Gabriel Atkin). Dedication: "This book belongs to Roderick Meiklejohn." Contents include "28 Country Poems" by Sassoon and "Fourteen New Rhymes for Children" by Robert Graves with frontispiece and decorations drawn by Nancy Nicholson. Also contains autographs and signed manuscript poems by: Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, W. Somerset Maugham, W.H. Davies, W.S. Turner, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Lytton Strachey, Henry Festing Jones, C.J. Holmes, Desmond MacCarthy, E.M. Forster, Margaret Kennedy, Robert Nichols, Ralph Hodgson, Edmund Blunden, Frank Prewett. Contains the poem "Quiet Evening," written and signed by Blunden.
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| Item date |
Unknown
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| Creation place |
Unknown
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| Item source | |
| Item medium | |
| Writing medium | |
| Total number of pages |
8
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| Cataloguer |
Alisa Miller
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| Filename |
SSHRC_070.jpg
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| Copyright |
The Harry Ransom Center / The Siegfried Sassoon Literary Estate
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| Collection ID |
The Siegfried Sassoon Collection
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| Repository name |
Harry Ransom Center
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| Repository address line1 |
The University of Texas at Austin
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| Repository address line2 |
21st and Guadalupe Streets
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| Repository address line3 |
Austin
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| Repository address county or state |
Texas
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| Repository address Zip code |
78712
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| Repository address country |
USA
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| Repository address URL |
Citation
“Works 1,” First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 20, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/10509.
