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Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet, A biography (1886-1918)

Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet, A biography (1886-1918)

Moorcroft Wilson, Jean

Paperback

Series: Siegfried Sassoon

Literary FiguresPoetry CriticismWorld War I

ISBN10: 0415973848
ISBN13: 9780415973847
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 2 2014
Pages: 564
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.46 Width: 6.34 Depth: 7.76
Language: English

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), soldier, poet, and witness to a century of war, is an icon of the twentieth century; Jean Moorcroft Wilson is the leading authority on him. In this two-volume biography, she offers her definitive analysis of his life and works. The first critically acclaimed volume, covering Sassoon's life up until the end of the Great War, offers rich material on his poetry, his patriotism, and his anti-war stance. In volume two, Moorcroft Wilson reveals the truth of Sassoon's life after the armistice, when most people thought he was dead; the story includes a series of love affairs with such larger-than-life characters as Queen Victoria's great-grandson, Prince Phillip of Hesse, the flamboyant Ivor Novello, and the exotic and bejeweled Stephen Tennant. But this was also the period of Sassoon's close friendships with the greatest literary figures of the age, including Hardy, Beerbohm, E.M. Forster, and T.E. Lawrence.

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