The little known love poem is by Siegfried Sassoon, one of the greatest war poets, and is being published in full for the first time today in the Observer. Half a century after Sassoon’s death ...

He then lived the life of a country gentleman, hunting and playing cricket while also publishing small volumes of poetry. Motivated by patriotism and a desire to do his duty, Siegfried Sassoon ...

Siegfried Sassoon was a model British officer decorated ... He was also a British gentleman who excelled at cricket and poetry. But while on convalescence from the front, Lt.

Despite the fact Sassoon was already writing about the misery of life in the trenches, his new poems are full of the nobility of the fight Credit: Photo: GETTY Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson ...

Sprinkling passages of his poetry over somber ... scenes set near the end of Sassoon’s life. (An acerbic Peter Capaldi plays the older, disillusioned Siegfried; Gemma Jones is quietly touching ...

Fittingly, his book's title comes from a 1917 poem by Siegfried Sassoon — titled "Repression of War Experience" — that includes these lines: "And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad ...

It includes Vera Brittain, author of the pacifist memoir “Testament of Youth.” And it includes Siegfried Sassoon, whose 1919 poem “Idyll” appears here today. This poem, written in the first year after ...

With the gay English poet Siegfried Sassoon as the subject of "Benediction ... up to serve in the war along with footage of cattle herding with a voiceover of Sassoon's poetry conveying the doom, ...