Siegfried Sassoon
English war poet and writer (1886-1967) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 80
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War.
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Sassoon (front) with his brother Hamo and other students on the morning after a college May Ball at Cambridge University in 1906
Portrait of Sassoon by Glyn Warren Philpot, 1917 (Fitzwilliam Museum)
An agreement from Arthur Quiller-Couch to Sassoon to write for the Daily Herald
Siegfried Sassoon's gravestone at St Andrew's Church, Mells, Somerset
Blue plaque, 23 Campden Hill Square, London
Poem "Everyone Sang" by Sassoon on a wall in The Hague
Green plaque on the site of Sassoon's former home in Tufton Street, Westminster, LondonAwards
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His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirized 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 with his "Soldier's Declaration" of July 1917, which resulted in his being sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital. During this period, Sassoon met and formed a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume, fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the Sherston trilogy, which is made up of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1936). Sassoon is also known for his poetry collection The Old Huntsman (1917).
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