- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), English Authors, Biography, Fiction
Siegfried Sassoon is a famous WW 1 poet. This is his first effort of writin prose. It is a fictional "autobiography"!
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Nostalgic, prestige, contemplative and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Siegfried Sassoon
- First published
- January 1, 1960
- Pages
- 313
- Publisher
- Read Books, Penguin Classics, Simon Publications
- Editions
- 69
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571064540
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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital; this resulted in his forming a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won
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