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SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967)
'Concert-interpretation (Le Sacre du Printemps)', manuscript poem by Sassoon, of 7 stanzas on one sheet, submitted to the Nation where it first appeared: 'The audience pricks an intellectual ear ... /Stravinsky ... Quite the Concert of the year! ... /Lynch the conductor! Jugulate the drums! /Butcher the Brass! Ensanguinate the strings! /Throttle the flutes! ... Stravinsky's April comes /With pitiless pomp and pain of sacred springs ... /Of sacrificial fiddles scorched and snapping!...'

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LITERATURE:
First published, unsigned, in The Nation and Athenaeum vol. XXX, no. 17, 21st January 1922, p. 619 [Keynes C.143]. It next appeared in a compilation of Sassoon's poems, entitled Recreations, limited to 75 copies, privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1923 [Keynes A22]. The first published edition of Sassoon's poems that included it was Satirical Poems, London, William Heinemann, 1926 [Keynes A26].

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