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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, [1] he became one of the leading poets of the First World War.
Siegfried Sassoon is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about World War I, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Avoiding the sentimentality and jingoism of many war poets, Sassoon wrote of the horror and brutality of trench warfare and contemptuously satirized generals, politicians, and churchmen for their ...
Sep 4, 2024 · Siegfried Sassoon was an English poet and novelist, known for his antiwar poetry and for his fictionalized autobiographies, praised for their evocation of English country life. Sassoon enlisted in World War I and was twice wounded seriously while serving as an officer in France.
Sep 10, 2016 · 10 Siegfried Sassoon Poems Everyone Should Read. In this guest post, Grace Freeman chooses ten of the best Sassoon poems. Although I’m interested in all aspects of war poetry, it probably wouldn’t shock anybody to learn (or not to learn, as the case may be) that I’m an Owen girl through and through. He was my first deep—maybe ...
Discover facts about the life and works of Siegfried Sassoon who wrote both poetry and prose. Find out how as a war hero he was nearly court-martialled.
Siegfried Sassoon was a renowned British poet, writer, and soldier who lived from 1886 to 1967. He is best known for his poems and writings about the First World War and the horrors that befell the men who risked their lives for their country.
Siegfried Sassoon, born in England in 1886, is best known for his poems inspired by his experiences in World War I. Also a novelist, Sassoon died on September 1, 1967.
Siegfried Sassoon (1886 – 1967) Siegfried Sassoon was the product of two very different cultures, his Jewish father’s family of merchant princes from Baghdad and his English mother’s Thornycroft farming ancestors, turned sculptors, painters and engineers.
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) was born into a wealthy Anglo-Jewish family and his early life was comfortable and leisured, dominated by sports and country pursuits. However, his poetic leanings were present even during this carefree period: the young Siegfried loved books and literature and said his only desire in life was to be a poet.
Sassoon is a key figure in the study of the poetry of the Great War: he brought with him to the war the idyllic pastoral background; he began by writing war poetry reminiscent of Rupert Brooke; he mingled with such war poets as Robert Graves and Edmund Blunden; he spoke out publicly against the war (and yet returned to it); he influenced and men...
