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	First World War.com - Prose & Poetry - Siegfried Sassoon
		Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) was born into a wealthy family on 8 September 1886 in Kent.
		Sassoon was awarded the Military Cross in June 1916 for assisting a wounded man back to British lines while under fire.
		Sassoon narrowly avoided punishment by courts martial via the swift assistance of Robert Graves, who convinced the military review board (with Sassoon's reluctant consent) that Sassoon was suffering from shell shock.
	www.firstworldwar.com /poetsandprose/sassoon.htm (426 words)

	Sassoon, Siegfried. War and Other Poems.
		Siegfried Sassoon was born in Weirleigh, Kent, England on September 8, 1886 into a leisurely society of country living.
		Sassoon enlisted in the military at the age of 28 just before the draft and was eventually assigned to the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
		Sassoon's early war poetry gives the reader a sense of war as a noble enterprise; his later war poetry attacks the entire nature of war and those who profit by it.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/8103 (829 words)

	Siegfried Sassoon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sassoon was born in a house named Weirleigh (which still stands) in the village of Matfield, Kent, to a Jewish father and a Protestant English mother.
		Sassoon was educated at The New Beacon Preparatory School, Kent, Marlborough College in Wiltshire, and at Clare College, Cambridge, (of which he was made an honorary fellow in 1953) where he studied both law and history from 1905 to 1907.
		Sassoon's periods of duty on the Western Front were marked by recklessly brave actions, including the single-handed capture of a German trench in the Hindenburg Line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siegfried_Sassoon (1827 words)

	Siegfried Sassoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Siegfried Sassoon, the semi-genteel (and semi-Gentile) cricketer and sportsman, all but lost his life in the mighty conflict that tore Europe to pieces near the beginning of this century.
		Siegfried (only in the relative innocence of 1886 could a half-Jewish child have been named for a figure from a Wagner opera) was the second of three sons, and proved sweetly mediocre at everything but cricket and riding, until the war.
		For his generation, the poetry and career of Siegfried Sassoon were emblematic of the ways in which the secure truths of Western civilization were destroyed in the hopeless foxholes of the First World War.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/books/99/06/17/SIEGFRIED_SASSOON.html (815 words)

	Counter-Attack: Biography of Siegfried Sassoon by Michele Fry
		Siegfried Sassoon was born at the family home of Weirleigh at Matfield, Kent, England, in 1886, the second son of Alfred and Theresa (née Thornycroft), who subsequently separated when Sassoon was five years old.
		It was at Craiglockhart that Sassoon met the poet Wilfred Owen.
		Sassoon was introduced to T E Lawrence shortly after his convalescence at Lennel House ended.
	www.sassoonery.demon.co.uk (2439 words)

	Siegfried Sassoon
		Soon afterwards, John Stuart Roberts produced his Siegfried Sassoon, which described itself as the first complete portrait and argued that the "real Sassoon" was not the reckless hero of the trenches, but the post-1918 figure who learned the loss of hope and whose spiritual quest uncovered the joy of "sightless seeing".
		Sassoon himself spent much of the last half of his life writing three heavily autobiographical quasi-novels and three volumes of memoirs, the most famous of which, "Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man," is the foundation of his literary reputation today.
		Siegfried Sassoon, who lived until 1967, will always be known as the poet of World War I, the shattered innocent who wrote ''The Old Huntsman" and ''Counter-Attack." As an officer at the front lines of the Western Front, he witnessed and wrote of the horrors of the trenches.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /sassoon.html (7591 words)

	The War Poets at Craiglockhart
		Siegfried Sassoon was born into a wealthy family on 8 September 1886 in Kent, and until the outbreak of the Great War he lived the life of a typical English sporting gentleman.
		Sassoon was sent to Craiglockhart for writing a letter of protest to his Colonel in July 1917, stating his alarm at the prolongation of the war, and the political errors that he felt were leading to the unnecessary sacrifice of soldiers' lives.
		Sassoon believed that the war was being continued longer than was necessary, by those who had the power to end it.
	sites.scran.ac.uk /Warp/siegfried_sassoon.htm (286 words)

	Biography of Siegfried Sassoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sassoon's writing seems to have become more despairing, more stark, as his experience of the war progressed, and it is clear that this and his mistrust of the management of the war was growing.
		Siegfried Sassoon was invalided back to England and was placed on sick leave until the Armistice.
		Sassoon's subsequent life shows a marked contrast to the prewar "sporting gentleman." He became literary editor of the socialist "Daily Herald," where he developed the work of Edmund Blunden, met and befriended Thomas Hardy and undertook a speaking tour of the United States.
	www.philipgrae.dabsol.co.uk /war/ww1/bios/sassoon.htm (1447 words)

	Nextbook: Soldier, Poet, Horseman
		Sassoon's war poems—ironic, heartfelt and remorseless in their exposure of battlefield misery—galvanized a nation, while his leadership and courage in the killing fields of France earned him the Military Cross, and lent direction and purpose to a life that hitherto had seemed aimless and fraught.
		Sassoon fought in the early battles of the Somme in 1916 and in the Hindenburg trenches in 1917, both dire times for the British army, and he was back on the front in Saint-Floris in 1918.
		Siegfried Sassoon was a bundle of contradictions and challenges: a hugely wealthy upper class Socialist; a hard-riding, fox-hunting poet; a decorated, antiwar, half-Jewish homosexual war hero; a lover of effeminate men who was also something of a prude, enraged by decadence and bad language.
	www.nextbook.org /cultural/feature.html?id=254 (1501 words)

	Sassoon, Owen
		Sassoon spent his childhood at the family home in Weirleigh, in the protected and somewhat rarefied atmosphere of a family near the center of the late Victorian and Edwardian literary and artistic world.
		He was the first of the younger Georgian poets to react violently against sentimentally patriotic notions of the glories of war; these poems have an extraordinary vigor--a stridency of tone, in fact--expressing with unconcealed irony and in colloquial terms a passionate hatred of the horrors of war.
		Sassoon's poems of the 1920s--represented in Satirical Poems (1926 and 1933) and in The Road to Ruin (1933--although they set out to satirize the corruptions and the pretensions of a disintegrating and confused materialistic society, were more controlled, artificial, less intense--and vastly less effective than the war poems.
	home.iae.nl /users/scehv/el/newpage215.htm (525 words)

	Siegfried Sassoon: A Poet's Pilgrimage
		Siegfried Sassoon is arguably the greatest of the War Poets.
		Sassoon was Owen's mentor, without whom Owen would probably have never written the acerbically assonant verse for which both men are celebrated.
		Sassoon's "Litany of the Lost" employed resonant religious imagery as a counterpoint to the post-war pessimism and alienation engendered by the descent from world war to Cold War.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/arts/al0114.html (1381 words)

	Siegfried Sassoon - Poetry Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) was born into a wealthy Anglo-Jewish family and his early life was comfortable and leisured, dominated by sports and country pursuits.
		Although Sassoon's later poetry is accomplished and sometimes very powerful, it's for the sting of his war poems that he is best remembered.
		Initially reluctant to be recorded, Sassoon eventually allowed "the infernal machine" (as he called it) to tape him reading from his original notebooks some of the most famous war poems of our time.
	www.poetryarchive.org /poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=1561 (526 words)

	Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
		Siegfried Sassoon was perhaps the most innocent of the war poets.
		Sassoon contrasts the youth and innocence of the soldiers with the ageing process of the war.
		Sassoon ends the poem in an accusatory manner, no doubt directed at the supporters of the War, the people who can so easily push soldiers back to the front without ever knowing the horrors of trench warfare.
	www.oucs.ox.ac.uk /ltg/projects/jtap/tutorials/intro/sassoon (763 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| LRB essay \| History of a foxhunting man
		But this was Sassoon's normal way of talking (his poetry readings at the height of his fame had often been more or less inaudible), and it was no obstacle to a formidable eloquence when he got going.
		Siegfried's great-great-grandfather Sasson Ben Saleh was the last Prince of the Captivity at the Caliph's court, and before moving to England the family had been the leading merchants in Bombay, where their great charitable monuments still stand.
		But Siegfried's father, Alfred, had been disowned by his mother when he insisted on marrying a gentile, Theresa Thornycroft, herself a sculptor and member of a robust clan of sculptors and engineers (her father Thomas founded the firm which eventually became Vosper Thornycroft, virtually the last surviving British shipbuilders).
	books.guardian.co.uk /lrb/articles/0,6109,1012767,00.html (3759 words)

	Siegfried Sassoon - The Making of a War Poet
		Siegfried Sassoon's personality was double, perhaps because he came from two very different cultures which seemed to pull him in opposite directions throughout his life and perhaps also because he was the product of a broken home (his father left the family when Sassoon was 5 years of age).
		Their outlook, manners and dress were completely oriental until the arrival of Siegfried's grandfather Sassoon David Sassoon, in England in 1858, when a rapid acclimatisation to the Western way of life took place within only one generation.
		It is well-known that Edward VII became friends with some of the richer Sassoons as well as other wealthy Jewish families such as the Rothschilds and this helped a little to overcome the rife anti-Semitism of much English society of the time.
	www.dangoor.com /70019.html (759 words)

	Siegfried Sassoon
		Sassoon's artistic life after World War I was a retreating and a turning inward, as his years as autobiographer attest to.
		Clearly, in one sense Sassoon was writing not only to inform a new generation of what he and his had endured, but also for himself, plumbing the depths and fundaments of memory and flexing the muscles of prose writing.
		Sassoon's reaction was by no means unique, however, and almost a century later the soldier-poets who were critical of that war have become for many people more convincing than the official historians.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /080704.html (8823 words)

	Siegfried Sassoon
		In May 1915 Sassoon became an officer in the Royal Fusiliers, and was posted to the Western Front in France.
		During the war Sassoon developed a harshly satirical style that he used to attack the incompetence and inhumanity of senior military officers.
		Sassoon was sent to Palestine and France before further injuries forced him to return to England.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jsassoon.htm (950 words)

	Siegfried Sassoon Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		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 was born in Brenchley, Kent, on Sept. 8, 1886, and spent his childhood at the family home in Weirleigh, in the protected and somewhat rarefied atmosphere of a family near the center of the late Victorian and Edwardian literary and artistic world.
		Sassoon died in Warminster, Wiltshire, on Sept. 1, 1967.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/siegfried-sassoon (487 words)

	Poets
		A Georgian poet, friend of Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Nichols (1893-1944) served for a short time at the front (including the Battle of the Somme) as an artillery officer, then was invalided home suffering from shell-shock.
		Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) spent his privileged, idyllic youth fox-hunting, playing cricket, and writing lyrical, Georgian poetry (which he would then have privately published, at great personal expense, in handsome limited editions).
		Siegfried Sassoon is a key figure -- perhaps the most important -- in the study of Great War literature.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~english/WWI/poets/poets.html (3364 words)

	BBC - History - Siegfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967)
		Siegfried Sassoon, English writer of poetry and prose ©
		One of the famous World War One poets, Sassoon was later known for his fictionalised autobiographies, praised for their evocation of English country life.
		After the war Sassoon spent a brief period as literary editor of the Daily Herald before going to the United States, travelling the length and breadth of the country on a speaking tour.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/sassoon_siegfried.shtml (370 words)

	On Passing The New Menin Gate, poem by Siegfried Sassoon
		Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon (1886-1967) was an young English gentleman.
		In August 1917 Siegfried Sassoon was sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh.
		His public statement of protest at the continuation of the war had embarrassed and angered the authorities, but the intervention of friends, pleading his shell-shock, saved him from a court-martial.
	www.greatwar.nl /sassoon/passing.html (437 words)

	War Poet Siegfried Sassoon in Ireland -- The Wild Geese Today
		Siegfried Sassoon, however, was not destined to remain in Ireland long enough to experience the Irish "Troubles," as the Great War was once again calling Sassoon back.
		It is possible that as Sassoon rode out that February morning he was accompanied by the famous hounds of Limerick's Scarteen Hunt, nicknamed "The Black and Tans" on account of their distinctive coloring.
		Sassoon died Sept. 1, 1967, at the age of 80.
	www.thewildgeese.com /pages/ww1ssass.html (1289 words)

	Siegfried Sassoon
		Siegfried Sassoon was born at Weirleigh, Kent, England, in 1886, the second son of Alfred and Theresa (née Thornycroft), who subsequently separated when Sassoon was five years old.
		Sassoon was "in reserve", in a support trench opposite Fricourt.
		It was at Craiglockhart that Sassoon met the poet Wilfred Owen (also diagnosed with shell-shock).
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWsassoon.htm (1072 words)

	Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet, a Biography (1886-1918) specs at MSN Shopping
		Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), soldier, poet, and witness to a century of war, is an icon of the twentieth century, Jean Moorcroft Wilson is the leading authority on him.
		In volume two, Moorcroft Wilson reveals the truth of Sassoon's life after armistice, when most people thought he was dead; the story includes a series of love affaires with such larger-than-life characters as Queen Victoria's great-grandson, Prince Phillip of Hesse, the flamboyant Ivor Novello, and the exotic and bejeweled Stephen Tennant.
		Written with the cooperation of Siegfried Sassoon's family and friends, and with access to a mass of private and unpublished material, poems, diaries, letters, and photographs, this meticulously researched biography will be the standard work on Sassoon's life and legacy.
	shopping.msn.com /specs.aspx?itemId=2614680 (233 words)

	Book Talk: Max Egremont: Siegfried Sassoon: A Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 in Kent, and began writing verses as a boy.
		At the demise of his passionate but 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, which draws from unprecedented access to Sassoon’s complete papers.
	www.bostonathenaeum.org /egremont.html (356 words)

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