Four Poems. Dreamers. Does it Matter? Base Details. Glory of Women.

Reprints from The Cambridge Magazine, No. 7, January, 1918. Only separate printing, 2 conjugate leaves, unbound as issued. Cambridge, by R.I. Severs, Hobson Passage, Sidney Street and sold at the office 6 King's Parade Cambridge. 1918

The Cambridge Magazine, edited by C.K. Ogden, was the first organ to publish Sassoon's anti-war poems, starting with "The Redeemer" in April 1916. It was an avowedly anti-war publication, and Jean Moorcroft Wilson notes that its offices were more than once attacked by outraged patriots during the War. Sassoon repeatedly turned to them to publish verse that no-one else would handle, having been introduced by his friend Edward Dent, and in total they published 26 poems of his during and immediately after the war. 

The "Reprints from the Cambridge Magazine" series totalled seven in all, three of which were by Sassoon, comprising The Redeemer, To any Dead Officer, and the present. The series was organised by A.T. Bartholomew, and Keynes believed that there were 200 to 250 copies printed. They were sold at threepence each, but the magazine indulged in its own very minor bit of war profiteering by declaring early numbers out of print and only available as part of a set, for ten shillings and sixpence. 

Front and rear slightly dust, but otherwise fine and unworn.

Stock Code: 228232