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Siegfried Sassoon | | Birth Date: |
October 8, 1886 | | Death Date: |
October 1, 1967 | | Place of Birth: |
Brenchley, Kent, England | | Place of Death: |
Warminster, Wiltshire, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet, soldier |
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 Biography of Siegfried Sassoon
457 words, approx. 2 pages
 The English poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) wrote a group of dramatic, intense lyrics in reaction to the horrors of World War I. His six volumes of partly fictionalized memoirs are a detailed record of the sensibilities of his age. Siegfried Sasson... summary from source:
 Biography of Siegfried (Lorraine) Sassoon
7,552 words, approx. 25 pages
 Siegfried Sassoon's poetry was published over a period of more than sixty years, almost to the moment of his death in 1967, a few days before his eighty-first birthday. In the history of British poetry, he will be remembered primarily for some one... summary from source:
Biography of Siegfried (Lorraine) Sassoon
3,933 words, approx. 13 pages
Although Siegfried Sassoon lived almost to the age of eighty-one and published poetry, fiction, and criticism over a period of sixty years, it was his experience in the years 1916 to 1918 that stoked his genius and informed almost all of his subsequent... 
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 Siegfried Sassoon Quotes
774 words, approx. 3 pages
Siegfried Sassoon ( September 8 , 1886 - September 1 , 1967 ) was a British poet and writer, most famous for the poems he wrote as a soldier in World War I . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 A Soldier's Declaration (July 1917) 1.2 The Counter-Attack and Other...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Siegfried Sassoon Information
2,549 words, approx. 9 pages
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I. Later on he won acclaim for his prose...
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 The Independent - London Siegfried Sassoon - mad, sad or heroically confused?
02/03/1998: 1,133 words, approx. 4 pages To us his anti-war poems and his sensational protest seem sanity itself, but the War Office papers, released yesterday, said he was mad. What is certainly true, says Ross Davies, is that he spent his whole life fighting his nightmares. The War Office,... summary from source:
New Criterion Rediscovering Sassoon.(Siegfried Sassoon: A Life)(Book Review)
11/01/2005: 3,304 words, approx. 11 pages Though Siegfried Sassoon lived a very long life, dying of natural causes at the age of eighty in 1967, he remains frozen, for posterity, somewhere in his late twenties, as an infantry officer in the trenches of the Western Front. Tall, elegant, rather...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Arthur E. Lane
9,421 words, approx. 31 pages
Lane is an American poet and professor of English literature. In the following analysis, he upholds the validity of much of Sassoon's war poetry, citing the poet's "deceptively simple immediacy" and his direct, nonmetaphoric use of imagery.
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Critical Essay by John H. Johnston
7,580 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Johnston analyzes the war poetry in The Old Huntsman and Counter-Attack. He argues that brief satirical verse of this kind renders the experience of battle "too directly and too grossly" and lacks the fuller perspective that other poets later brought to the war.
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Critical Essay by Joseph Cohen
5,461 words, approx. 18 pages
Here, Cohen outlines the three roles that he believes Sassoon has assumed in regard to his poetry, those of "country gentleman," "angry prophet," and "self-effacing hermit. "
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