Satirical Poems.

SASSOON, Siegfried.

$400.00

Item Number: 128255

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1926.

First edition of Sassoon’s classic collection. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Edmund Blunden on the front free endpaper, “A.F.W. with E.B.’s undying affection, Cowlinge, Nov. 10, 1927.” English poet, author and critic Edmund Blunden was one of Sassoon’s closest friends and, like him, wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. Blunden was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times. With Bluden’s review of The Poems of Clough from the November 23, 1951 issue  of the Time Literary Supplement laid in which is also inscribed by him, “A.F.W. from the author 16 xi 51.” Very good in a very good dust jacket.

English poet, writer, and soldier Siegfried Sassoon was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fueled war. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalized autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy".