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The War Poems (FF Classics)

The War Poems (FF Classics)

by SiegfriedSassoon (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

The First World War turned Siegfried Sassoon into a poet of international standing. His War Poems are the works by which he will be remembered, illuminating a moment in our history to which we return in horror and fascination.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: Reprint.
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 04 Oct 1999
ISBN 10: 0571202659
ISBN 13: 9780571202652

Author Bio
Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. He served in the trenches during the First World War, where he began to write the poems for which he is remembered. Dispatched as 'shell-shocked' to hospital, he organised public protest against the war. His poetry initially met with little response, but his reputation grew steadily in the following decades. Apart from the War Poems of 1919, he published eight volumes of verse during his lifetime. But it as a novelist and autobiographer that he is perhaps better-known. Sassoon's semi-autobiographical trilogy - Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1936) - was outstandingly successful. He published several more volumes of autobiography, including Siegfried's Journey (1945), before his death in 1967.