SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967)

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SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967)
'Sheldonian Soliloquy. (during Bach's B. minor Mass)', autograph manuscript poem of 4 stanzas on one sheet, signed 'Cyprinoid': 'My Music-loving Self this afternoon /(Clothed in the gilded surname of S*****n) /Squats in the packed Sheldonian and observes /An intellectual bee-hive perched and seated /In achromatic and expectant curves /Of buzzing, sunbeam-flecked, and overheated /Accomodation. Skins perspire ... But hark!.. /Begins the great B. MINOR MASS of Bach.'

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LITERATURE:
First published, signed Cyprinoid, in The Nation and Athenaeum, vol. XXXI, no. 3, 27th May, 1922, p.307 [Keynes C.148]; then Recreations, 1923 [Keynes A22]; and later Satirical Poems, 1926 [Keynes A26].

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