How to Die

Item

Creator

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

Abstract

Manuscript of poem in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Sassoon notes on the facing page that the poem had been published in 'The Cambridge Magazine' on 6th October 1917. 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

1917 to 1919

Source

Folio

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Poem

number of pages

1

pages

12

Contributor

Alisa Miller