Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)
Autor/a de Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
Sobre l'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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Sèrie
Obres de Siegfried Sassoon
Poems from Italy : Verses Written By Members of the Eighth Army in Sicily and Italy July 1943 - March 1944 (1945) 8 exemplars
To my mother 6 exemplars
Satirical Poems 6 exemplars
Lingual exercises for advanced vocabularians 5 exemplars
Nativity 5 exemplars
Recreations, by Siegfried Sassoon 3 exemplars
An Octave 2 exemplars
A Suppressed Poem 2 exemplars
Prehistoric Burials 2 exemplars
Everyone Sang 1 exemplars
Ancient History 1 exemplars
Repression of War Experience 1 exemplars
The Weald of Youth 1 exemplars
“Attack” 1 exemplars
Sheraton’s Progress 1 exemplars
Siegfried's Journey 1 exemplars
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston 1 exemplars
The General 1 exemplars
In Sicily (The Ariel Poems) 1 exemplars
“The General” 1 exemplars
The War Poems (The World At War) 1 exemplars
More of the Obelus : books and papers from the libraries of Siegfried Sassoon and others 1 exemplars
The War Poems 1 exemplars
Sunday Morning Visitors 1 exemplars
Letter 1 exemplars
??? 1 exemplars
The tasking 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 550 exemplars
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Col·laborador — 249 exemplars
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul (2017) 124 exemplars
Six Poets of the Great War: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Edward… (1995) 20 exemplars
Ode to Boy: Vol. 2: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from the 19th Century Through the First World War (2014) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Piers prodigal : and other poems — Introducció — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine
- Altres noms
- Lyre, Pinchbeck (pseudonym)
Kain, Saul (pseudonym)
Sherston, George
Kangar - Data de naixement
- 1886-09-08
- Data de defunció
- 1967-09-01
- Lloc d'enterrament
- St. Andrews Parish Church, Mells, Somerset, England
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- England, UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Matfield, Kent, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Causa de la mort
- stomach cancer
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK - Educació
- Marlborough College
Clare College, Cambridge - Professions
- poet
writer
soldier
cricket player - Relacions
- Sassoon, Philip (cousin)
Sassoon, George (son)
Graves, Robert (friend)
Owen, Wilfred (friend)
Waddell, Helen (friend)
Causley, Charles (friend) (mostra-les totes 7)
Rivers, W. H. R. (friend) - Organitzacions
- Royal Welsh Fusiliers
- Premis i honors
- Commander, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1951)
Military Cross (1916)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 69
- També de
- 27
- Membres
- 3,397
- Popularitat
- #7,502
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 40
- ISBN
- 114
- Llengües
- 6
- Preferit
- 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.… (més)