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The War Poems: Arranged and Introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis

The War Poems: Arranged and Introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis

by SiegfriedSassoon (Author)

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    Paperback 1983

    $3.33

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

For "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon," Sir Rupert Hart-Davis has arranged the poems as far as possible in the order of their composition. A useful Biographical Table is also included, so that students, scholars, and other readers can trace the movement of the soldier alongside the mind of the poet. Fourteen of the poems in this volume are published for the first time.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Edition: Fifteenth Reprint
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 14 Mar 1983
ISBN 10: 0571130151
ISBN 13: 9780571130153

Media Reviews
In later years, when Siegfried Sassoon had written much else in prose and verse, he was annoyed at always being referred to simply as a war poet, but it was the Great War that turned him into a poet of international fame, and I feel sure that his ghost will forgive me for thus bringing together these magnificently scarifying poems. --Rupert Hart-Davis, from his Introduction
Author Bio
The celebrated British poet, editor, critic, novelist, and diarist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) enlisted for military service on the first day of World War I; his friends in the service included Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen. Sassoon's war poems were originally published in The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918). After the war, he went on to write several other books of poetry and criticism, as well as six volumes of prose autobiography.Rupert Hart-Davis was the editor of the original collected letters of Oscar Wilde, published in 1962.