Welcome to the Siegfried Sassoon Bibliography Web Site   

This is the only web site that records the complete bibliography of the famous First World War soldier, poet and writer, Siegfried Sassoon. Illustrated here are all the books and pamphlets published by Sassoon in his lifetime; any contribution he has made to other books such as introductions and forewords, and any of his work published by others in his lifetime such as the inclusion of his poems or other work in anthologies etc.

All books illustrated are from my own collection and are listed in order of the date they were published. I have also included on the site books in which people have written about Sassoon in his lifetime and also modern books written about him after his death, in particular biographies which may be of interest to those wishing to find out more about him.

Keynes

Bibliographer and close friend of Siegfried Sassoon, Geoffrey Keynes, wrote a bibliography of Sassoon’s work which was published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1962. This is a wonderful book but unfortunately is incomplete. Siegfried Sassoon was a complex character, full of contradictions and although he had always wanted to be a famous writer, when Keynes suggested he write his bibliography Sassoon only grudgingly agreed and then took a devilish delight in holding back information and being generally unhelpful throughout the exercise.

Keynes had Sassoon’s own library from which to carry out his research and he also had a number of his own books to collate. However, many books, particularly anthologies, went unrecorded and this web site brings more of them together for the first time. I have used Keynes own numbering system but where books are not in his bibliography I have noted that they were Not Collated.

Some other books are not covered in depth by Keynes but merely mentioned in the larger descriptions of other more well-known titles. Where this is the case I have noted that they were Mentioned.

The Bookshelf - Click the titles below to find out about Siegfried Sassoon’s writing

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New additions to the web site will be listed here as they are added

The books that illustrate these pages come from my own collection and as will be seen, there are many missing. Where I do not have an example of the book being listed, I have inserted a picture from a selection of those that have illustrated Siegfried Sassoon’s books as a placeholder, if I subsequently obtain a copy of a missing book, I will update the page with its picture.

This web site consists of twelve main sections, or headings which can be accessed from the main navigation bar, top left of each page, or the links below:

Sassoon Books These are further broken down into seven categories which record the books that Siegfried Sassoon wrote himself comprising of his autobiographies, both fictional and real, his poetry and also any other subjects.

Contributions There are three categories in this section, books in which Siegfried Sassoon has contributed the Introduction or Foreword, three web pages of books in which he has poems published (mainly anthologies), and books in which he has contributed other texts.

About Sassoon These are books which contain information about Siegfried Sassoon, written during his lifetime.

Catalogues An interesting section which covers auction catalogues relating to Siegfried Sassoon’s work.

Modern Day This section is self explanatory, it includes books that have been written about Siegfried Sassoon or have articles relating to him in the years after his death up to the modern day.

Periodicals This section covers magazines and periodicals in which Siegfried Sassoon has had his work published or contain stories about him during his lifetime.

Music A small but hopefully growing section highlighting any of Siegfried Sassoon’s poems that have been put to music.

His Library A small but fascinating selection of books in my possession which once formed part of Siegfried Sassoon’s own library and were later auctioned off. Also, a small number of books that belonged to Sassoon’s wife, Hester Gatty.

Sassoon Biography A short, one page biography of Siegfried Sassoon.

Keynes Biography A short, one page biography of Sassoon’s bibliographer, Sir Geoffrey Keynes.

Contact Please contact me from this page.

Links Web sites which may or may not relate to Siegfried Sassoon but could still be of interest to others.

*Web site created by David Gray, 2008 - Please feel free to Contact me*