Siegfried Sassoon — Selected Poems

London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1930. Cloth. A smart copy of this powerful selection tracing Sassoon"s shift from romanticism to stark war-time realism. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding.This volume is the third, new impression of this work published in September, 1930.Drawing from his celebrated wartime and post-war poetry, like The Old Huntsman, War Poems, and Picture‑Show, this volume offers a powerful snapshot of Sassoon"s transformation from romantic verse to searing war‑time realism. With poems including "Before Day", "A Child's Prayer", "Noah", "Dryads", When I'm Among a Blaze of Lights", "Dreamers", "The Redeemer", "Wirers", "A Working Party", "Base Details", "Trench Duty", "Counter-Attack", "Suicide in the Trenches", "Glory of Women", and "I Stood with the Dead", among many others. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. One or two slight handling marks to boards. Very slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight offsetting to rear free endpaper. Dust wrapper, smart. Slight soiling to wraps. Spine slightly faded. Slight rubbing an bumping to extremities resulting one or two very small chips and closed tears to head of spine. Slight offsetting to inside of wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot to fore edge. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed.