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SASSOON (SIEGFRIED), 1886-1967 --- SASSOON (SIEGFRIED), 1886-1967

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Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 in Kent, and began writing verses as a boy. While a brave young officer, he confronted the terrible realities of the First World War on the battlefield, in verse, and, finally, by announcing his opposition to the war in 1917, showing that physical courage could exist alongside humanity and sensibility. In 1918, Sassoon found himself one of the most famous young writers of the time, a mentor to Wilfred Owen, and admired by Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence. He joined the Labour Party, became literary editor of the socialist Daily Herald, and began close friendships with Thomas Hardy and E.M. Forster, while trying to adapt his poetry to peacetime. Then Sassoon fell in love with the artistocratic aesthete Stephen Tennant, who led him into his group of Bright Young Things who inspired the early novels of Evelyn Waugh. At the demise of his passionate and fraught relationship with Tennant, Sassoon suddenly married the beautiful Hester Gatty in 1933 and retreated to a quiet country life until their eventual estrangement and Sassoon's subsequent conversion to Catholicism. From his famous war poems to the gentler vision of his prose, Sassoon wrote masterfully of war and lost idylls, and this work and its complex author are brilliantly illuminated in Max Egremont's definitive biography.

Poets, English --- Catholic converts --- Soldiers --- Sassoon, Siegfried, - 1886-1967

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Through Siegfried Sassoon would argue the point throughout his life, most critics regard his war poetry, written during World War I, as the best of his writings. Like many of his artistic contemporaries, Sassoon embraced the Great War for Civilization with great fervor, and it was this passion that he brought to his earliest writings about the war. Absolution, his first war poem, published in 1915, summed up his feelings: fighting for our freedom, we are free. Fighting on the frontlines, Sassoon soon came to the conviction that his war for civilization was anything but civilized. And thus his writings took on a new tone, courageously denouncing a conflict that was no longer about defense and liberation but was for aggression and conquest. Through primary documents and extensive research, the current work provides critical analyses of Sassoon's war poetry. Detailed examinations of each of the so-called trench poems show how the poet and his poetry were transformed through his wartime experiences and give the rationale for the critical consensus that the Sassoon canon is among the most significant in the literature of modern warfare.

Thematology --- Sassoon, Siegfried --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Soldiers' writings, English --- War poetry, English --- Literature and the war. --- History and criticism. --- Sassoon, Siegfried, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- World War, 1914-1918 - Great Britain - Literature and the war. --- Soldiers' writings, English - History and criticism. --- War poetry, English - History and criticism. --- Sassoon, Siegfried, - 1886-1967 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Sassoon, Siegfried, - 1886-1967

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SASSOON (SIEGFRIED), 1886-1967 --- GRAVES (ROBERT), 1895-1985 --- GUERRE MONDIALE (1914-1918) DANS LA LITTERATURE --- GUERRE ET LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- POESIE ANGLAISE --- 20E SIECLE --- 20E SIECLE --- SASSOON (SIEGFRIED), 1886-1967 --- GRAVES (ROBERT), 1895-1985 --- GUERRE MONDIALE (1914-1918) DANS LA LITTERATURE --- GUERRE ET LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- POESIE ANGLAISE --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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Foster, Edward Morgan --- Lawrence, David Herbert --- Literary form --- Forster, E. M. - (Edward Morgan), - 1879-1970. - Howards End. --- Lawrence, D. H. - (David Herbert), - 1885-1930. - Rainbow. --- Sassoon, Siegfried, - 1886-1967 - Technique. --- Thomas, Edward, - 1878-1917 - Technique. --- Owen, Wilfred, - 1893-1918 - Technique. --- English language - 20th century - Rhetoric.