Making of a War Poet (v.1) (Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography)

by JeanMoorcroftWilson (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $4.33

  Celebrated as the author of some of the most moving war poems and of the Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man , Sassoon's inner feelings have nonetheless remained imprisoned in his diaries. Using many of his private letters and papers, this first volume of Sassoon's biography traces his life as one of the Gilded Youth of the Great War generation and the first modern figure of our century.

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $3.25

  Where most veterans of the Great War returned home traumatised by the carnage in the trenches, Siegfried Sassoon had received recognition for his superbly vivid poetry and the bravery both on the battle field and back home. In rapid succession, he had numerous homosexual affairs: none of them ultimately satisfying. Yet he also started on his great trilogy of anti-hero novels, Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man , Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston's Progress . This volume of Sassoon's biography continues to show how a homosexual poet came to define heroism not only during the war, but even more so after the war.