Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)
Autor de Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Series
Obras de Siegfried Sassoon
Poems from Italy : Verses Written By Members of the Eighth Army in Sicily and Italy July 1943 - March 1944 (1945) 8 copias
To my mother 6 copias
Satirical Poems 6 copias
Nativity 5 copias
Recreations, by Siegfried Sassoon 3 copias
An Octave 2 copias
A Suppressed Poem 2 copias
Prehistoric Burials 2 copias
Everyone Sang 1 copia
Ancient History 1 copia
Repression of War Experience 1 copia
The Weald of Youth 1 copia
“Attack” 1 copia
Sheraton’s Progress 1 copia
Siegfried's Journey 1 copia
The General 1 copia
In Sicily (The Ariel Poems) 1 copia
“The General” 1 copia
The War Poems (The World At War) 1 copia
The War Poems 1 copia
Sunday Morning Visitors 1 copia
Letter 1 copia
??? 1 copia
The tasking 1 copia
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- Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine
- Otros nombres
- Lyre, Pinchbeck (pseudonym)
Kain, Saul (pseudonym)
Sherston, George
Kangar - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1886-09-08
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1967-09-01
- Lugar de sepultura
- St. Andrews Parish Church, Mells, Somerset, England
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- England, UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Matfield, Kent, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Causa de fallecimiento
- stomach cancer
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK - Educación
- Marlborough College
Clare College, Cambridge - Ocupaciones
- poet
writer
soldier
cricket player - Relaciones
- Sassoon, Philip (cousin)
Sassoon, George (son)
Graves, Robert (friend)
Owen, Wilfred (friend)
Waddell, Helen (friend)
Causley, Charles (friend) (mostrar todos 7)
Rivers, W. H. R. (friend) - Organizaciones
- Royal Welsh Fusiliers
- Premios y honores
- Commander, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1951)
Military Cross (1916)
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- Obras
- 69
- También por
- 27
- Miembros
- 3,417
- Popularidad
- #7,452
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 40
- ISBNs
- 114
- Idiomas
- 6
- Favorito
- 13
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.… (más)