The Investiture

Item

Title

Identifier

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Creator

Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967)

Abstract

Typescript of poem with one underlining in ink. Found in a volume including other poems from Siegfried Sassoon's 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918) bound in blue leather, dedicated to Robert Ross. Letters from Sassoon to Ross as well as letters between Ross and William Heineman, Sassoon's publisher, were also included in this volume. Also includes a quotation from Henri Barbusse's war-time novel 'Under Fire' (1915) in Sassoon's hand.

Date

January to March 1918

Date Created

1913-12-31

Temporal Coverage

1914-03-30

Spatial Coverage

Source

Folio

Medium

Paper

Format

Typescript

Type

Poem

Contributor

Alisa Miller