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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon , CBE, MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I. He later won accl...
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Poet: Siegfried Sassoon - All poems of Siegfried Sassoon .. poetry ... Siegfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967 / Kent / England) ... Siegfried Sassoon was perhaps the most innocent of the war poets. John Hildebidle has called Sassoon the "accidental hero." Born into a wealthy Jewish .. more >>
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WORKS His poetry—at times violent, always honest—expressed his conviction of the brutality and waste of war in grim, forceful, realistic verse. ... The Old Huntsman and Other Poems ... Counter-Attack and Other Poems...
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www.bartleby.com/people/Sassoon.html
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The first ever online collection of the manuscripts, photos and letters of Siegfried Sassoon, launched this Armistice day, focuses on his war poetry ... I've got weeks and weeks to live," writes Siegfried Sassoon in a letter from France in 1918, made available online today by Oxford University to mark this year's Armistice day.
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www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/11/sassoon-manuscript...
www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/11/sassoon-manuscripts-online
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A threat that a rich personal archive of Siegfried Sassoon's journals, poems and letters would be broken up or sold to the US appears to have been lifted, it will be announced today. ... Cambridge University is on the verge of securing Siegfried Sassoon's personal papers for posterity...
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www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/04/siegfried-sassoon-...
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First World War.com - A multimedia history of world war one ... Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) was born into a wealthy family on 8 September 1886 in Kent. After studying at Marlborough College Sassoon attended Clare College, Cambridge, but left without graduating in 1907 (he was subsequently made an Honorary Fellow in 1953).
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www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/sassoon.htm
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Siegfried Sassoon © An English war poet, Sassoon was also known for his fictionalised autobiographies, praised for their evocation of English country life. ... Siegfried Sassoon was born on 8 September 1886 in Kent. His father was part of a Jewish merchant family, originally from Iran and India, and his mother part of...
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www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/sassoon_siegfrie...
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Listen to extracts from a BBC interview with Siegfried Sassoon ... Siegfried Sassoon; English poet and novelist; Nicknamed "Mad Jack" for his reckless courage during World War I, Siegfried Sassoon became opposed to the war and started writing antiwar poetry in response to the carnage he witnessed.
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