SASSOON, Siegfried.

£875 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Old Huntsman and Other Poems. First edition, in the scarce jacket, of Sassoon's first collection of war poetry. After reading the work, Wilfred Owen described "feeling at a very high pitch of emotion. Nothing like [Sassoon's] trench life sketches has ever been written or ever will be written."In this work and the follow-up collection Counter Attack (1918), "Sassoon's savagely realistic and compassionate war poems established his stature as a fully fledged poet, and despite all his later prose and verse, and his growing aversion to the label, it was mainly as a war poet that he was regarded for the rest of his life" (ODNB).

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