The complete online text of The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon.

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 wa...

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 hundre...

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 w...

Jean Moorcroft Wilson. Duckworth. [pounds]25.00. 320 pages. ISBN 0-7156-2822-4. When I was a child, living in a small Dorset market town, the baker made his deliveries each Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening, always arriving in our kitchen around six o'clock. Since we...

"Difference at War" is a comparative study of three Jewish poet-soldiers of the First World War: Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and U.Z. Grinberg. The article traces the development of poetic expression in relation to wartime and other experiences and argues for a necessary...