Prelude: The Troops

Item

Title

Prelude: The Troops

Creator

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

Abstract

Manuscript of poem in blue ink with corrections in black ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. Included in a notebook containing manuscript drafts and clippings of various poems later published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918), some with notes in Sassoon's hand explaining additional places of publication.

Date

September 1917

Spatial Coverage

Craiglockhart Military Hospital, Edinburgh, England

Source

Folio

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Poem

number of pages

2

pages

1-2

Contributor

Alisa Miller