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SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). Five autograph poems, comprising: a draft in ink of 18 lines (opening, 'In bygone days I sometimes sauced a Confederate crony... with Morgan I can still be 'matey' Though grown so eminent at eighty') written for E.M. Forster's eightieth birthday (a copy sent by Sassoon to Forster on a postcard dated 30 December 1958, see the Papers of E.M. Forster, King's/PP/EMF/18/489); 'Not Yet Forthcoming', pencil draft; a two-stanza parody of Edith Sitwell, dated 10 January 1937 ('Miss Sitwell's like Boosoni... Miss Sitwell's Paderooski. Then what price Ezra Pound?.. The answer is 'Pooh-poohski'), with Sassoon's note on its inspiration -- a quotation from Sitwell in 'The Sunday Times'; a two-stanza draft in pencil, opening 'Toward what discoifed untheologic clime Turn you ... '; a four-stanza poem opening, 'If there are ghosts to raise', with initials 'T.L.B.'; together 5 pages, 8vo and 12mo, APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED. Together with: an invitation card for the Hawthornden Prize (1936), with Sassoon's cariacature sketches in pencil of literary figures, with amusing annotation on verso. Provenance: sale of items from his library, Sotheby's London, 18 July 1991, lot 120, part. (6)
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Please note that the final poem listed ('If there are ghosts to raise') is an autograph transcription by Sassoon of Thomas Lovell Beddoes' 'Dream-Pedlary', and is not by Sassoon.