Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

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Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

Lingual Exercises for Advanced Vocabularians. 1925

[SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967)]. Lingual Exercises for Advanced Vocabularians. Cambridge: Privately printed at the University Press, 1925.



First edition, one of 99 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed for Lady Ottoline Morrell with the author's monogram. Perhaps the most important support that Ottoline Morrell ever offered to a poet or artist was her friendship for Siegfried Sassoon during the First World War. She became aware of him when she read his poem 'To Victory' in The Times on 15 January 1916, and traced him through Edmund Gosse. Like her he was an admirer of the Ballets Russes, and she wrote of her pleasure at finding 'in the dark prison-like days a sympathetic desire - to fly out beyond into the beauty and colour and freedom that one so longs for' (Max Egremont, Siegfried Sassoon, p.81). They continued to correspond frequently, and Sassoon sent her his war poems as he wrote them, in return for which she sent writings of her own. Keynes A23.



Octavo (216 x 143mm). Original brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt (without the slipcase, spine ends lightly rubbed). Provenance: authorial inscription and monogram to – Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) – ? Julian Morrell (1906-1989, pencil annotation to ‘To an Old Lady, Dead’: ‘My grandmother H.A. Morrell’).

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