Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)
Autor von Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man
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Sassoon is unusual among the generation of World War I poets in that he survived the war and was able to write of it both immediately and retrospectively. Born into a wealthy family, Sassoon grew up steeped in the genteel pleasures of the Edwardian aristocracy. He enlisted as a second lieutenant in mehr anzeigen World War I, serving in France. Like many poets, Sassoon wrote of the war at first as a noble, chivalric undertaking. But, under the influence of Robert Graves, Sassoon soon developed a more cynical aesthetic. His poem "Repression of War Experience" helps explain the development of his war poetry: It describes the frustration of the soldier trying to communicate the nature of the war to those safe at home and vividly connotes the horror and madness that pervade the soldiers' sustained experience in the trenches. His eventual pacifism and distrust of the military are reflected in his short poem "The General," which blames an uncomprehending and facile wartime leadership for the needless deaths of masses of soldiers. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
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Werke von Siegfried Sassoon
Poems from Italy : Verses Written By Members of the Eighth Army in Sicily and Italy July 1943 - March 1944 (1945) 8 Exemplare
To my mother 6 Exemplare
Satirical Poems 6 Exemplare
Lingual exercises for advanced vocabularians 5 Exemplare
Nativity 5 Exemplare
Recreations, by Siegfried Sassoon 3 Exemplare
An Octave 2 Exemplare
A Suppressed Poem 2 Exemplare
Prehistoric Burials 2 Exemplare
Everyone Sang 1 Exemplar
Ancient History 1 Exemplar
Repression of War Experience 1 Exemplar
The Weald of Youth 1 Exemplar
“Attack” 1 Exemplar
Sheraton’s Progress 1 Exemplar
Siegfried's Journey 1 Exemplar
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston 1 Exemplar
The General 1 Exemplar
In Sicily (The Ariel Poems) 1 Exemplar
“The General” 1 Exemplar
The War Poems (The World At War) 1 Exemplar
The War Poems 1 Exemplar
Sunday Morning Visitors 1 Exemplar
Letter 1 Exemplar
??? 1 Exemplar
The tasking 1 Exemplar
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The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 552 Exemplare
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Mitwirkender — 250 Exemplare
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul (2017) 124 Exemplare
Six Poets of the Great War: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Edward… (1995) 20 Exemplare
Ode to Boy: Vol. 2: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from the 19th Century Through the First World War (2014) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Piers prodigal : and other poems — Einführung — 2 Exemplare
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine
- Andere Namen
- Lyre, Pinchbeck (pseudonym)
Kain, Saul (pseudonym)
Sherston, George
Kangar - Geburtstag
- 1886-09-08
- Todestag
- 1967-09-01
- Begräbnisort
- St. Andrews Parish Church, Mells, Somerset, England
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Großbritannien
- Land (für Karte)
- England, UK
- Geburtsort
- Matfield, Kent, England, UK
- Sterbeort
- Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Todesursache
- stomach cancer
- Wohnorte
- London, England, UK
Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK - Ausbildung
- Marlborough College
Clare College, Cambridge - Berufe
- poet
writer
soldier
cricket player - Beziehungen
- Sassoon, Philip (cousin)
Sassoon, George (son)
Graves, Robert (friend)
Owen, Wilfred (friend)
Waddell, Helen (friend)
Causley, Charles (friend) (Zeige alle 7)
Rivers, W. H. R. (friend) - Organisationen
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- Commander, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1951)
Military Cross (1916)
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Sassoon's anger builds and builds, and he is utterly withering by the end. These poems say more than any biography could about the man.
It's an extraordinary collection, particularly for a British reader for whom the First World War is regarded as unmitigated lunacy. Look no farther than Blackadder Goes Forth for a very British interpretation.
More than once I read a verse and had to put the book down beside me. War, in all its horror, condescended, captured, and retold. And, to one side, a warning of the ways of the ruling class given dominion.… (mehr)