SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1957)

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SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1957)
'Villa d' Este Gardens', manuscript poem, signed, of 4 stanzas on one sheet: 'My intellect, (though slightly in abeyance,) /Suggested analytic Byronismus; /(Don Juan against a disillusioned back-ground.) /Then Browning jogged my elbow; bade me hob-nob /With some forgotten painter of dim frescoes /That haunt the Villa's intramural twilight... /While roaming in the Villa d'Este Gardens /I felt like that ... and fumbled for my notebook.'

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LITERATURE:
First published in The Nation and Athenaeum, vol. XXXI, no. 3, 15th April 1922, p.88 [Keynes C.146]; then Recreations, 1923 [Keynes A22]; and later in Satirical Poems, 1926 [Keynes A26].

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