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Bookmark or Share- 10 Siegfried Sassoon Poems Everyone Should ReadSassoon’s verse is often satirical, always truthful, and he writes with such a striking discordance, that it’s easy to see why he was revered as much a century ago as he is today. Here is a selection of ten of his poems, most of which are personal favourites.
- Siegfried Sassoon | World War I, Poet, Memoirist | BritannicaSiegfried Sassoon was an English poet and novelist, known for his antiwar poetry and for his fictionalized autobiographies, praised for their evocation of English country life. Sassoon enlisted in World War I and was twice wounded seriously while serving as an officer in France. It was his antiwar.
- Siegfried Sassoon - WikipediaSiegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, [1] he became one of the leading poets of the First World War.
- Historic Figures: Siegfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967) - BBCDiscover facts about the life and works of Siegfried Sassoon who wrote both poetry and prose. Find out how as a war hero he was nearly court-martialled.
- Counter-Attack by Siegfried Sassoon | Poetry FoundationSiegfried Sassoon is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about World War I, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Avoiding the sentimentality and jingoism of many war poets, Sassoon wrote of the horror and brutality of trench warfare and contemptuously satirized generals,...
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