Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)
Auteur de Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Crédit image: Photo by George Charles Beresford (1864-1938)
Séries
Œuvres de Siegfried Sassoon
Poems from Italy : Verses Written By Members of the Eighth Army in Sicily and Italy July 1943 - March 1944 (1945) 8 exemplaires
Satirical Poems 6 exemplaires
To my mother 6 exemplaires
Lingual exercises for advanced vocabularians 5 exemplaires
Nativity 5 exemplaires
The War Poets: A Selection of World War I Poetry (2nd Edition) (2011) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Recreations, by Siegfried Sassoon 3 exemplaires
Prehistoric Burials 2 exemplaires
A Suppressed Poem 2 exemplaires
An Octave 2 exemplaires
SHERSTON"S PROGRESS (676) 1 exemplaire
Ancient History 1 exemplaire
Repression of War Experience 1 exemplaire
“Attack” 1 exemplaire
In Sicily (The Ariel Poems) 1 exemplaire
Letter 1 exemplaire
The Weald of Youth 1 exemplaire
The General 1 exemplaire
Siegfried's Journey 1 exemplaire
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston 1 exemplaire
Four Poems. Dreamers. Base Details. Does it matter? Glory of Women ... Reprinted from “The Cambridge Magazine” for… 1 exemplaire
Everyone Sang 1 exemplaire
Sheraton’s Progress 1 exemplaire
“The General” 1 exemplaire
The War Poems (The World At War) 1 exemplaire
Poems by Siegfried Sassoon selected by Dennis Silk 1 exemplaire
More of the Obelus : books and papers from the libraries of Siegfried Sassoon and others 1 exemplaire
Sunday Morning Visitors 1 exemplaire
??? 1 exemplaire
The tasking 1 exemplaire
The War Poems 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
[ASSASSIN'S CLOAK] by (Author)Taylor, Irene on Nov-11-03 (2000) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 555 exemplaires
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contributeur — 251 exemplaires
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul (2017) 128 exemplaires
Six Poets of the Great War: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Edward… (1995) 20 exemplaires
Ode to Boy: Vol. 2: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from the 19th Century Through the First World War (2014) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Piers prodigal : and other poems — Introduction — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine
- Autres noms
- Lyre, Pinchbeck (pseudonym)
Kain, Saul (pseudonym)
Sherston, George
Kangar - Date de naissance
- 1886-09-08
- Date de décès
- 1967-09-01
- Lieu de sépulture
- St. Andrews Parish Church, Mells, Somerset, England
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- England, UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Matfield, Kent, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Cause du décès
- stomach cancer
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK - Études
- Marlborough College
Clare College, Cambridge - Professions
- poet
writer
soldier
cricket player - Relations
- Sassoon, Philip (cousin)
Sassoon, George (son)
Graves, Robert (friend)
Owen, Wilfred (friend)
Waddell, Helen (friend)
Causley, Charles (friend) (tout afficher 7)
Rivers, W. H. R. (friend) - Organisations
- Royal Welsh Fusiliers
- Prix et distinctions
- Commander, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1951)
Military Cross (1916)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 70
- Aussi par
- 27
- Membres
- 3,446
- Popularité
- #7,372
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 40
- ISBN
- 114
- Langues
- 6
- Favoris
- 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.… (plus d'informations)