‘Death Comes for the War Poets’ looks at the life and legacy of poet Siegfried Sassoon ... and later for Sassoon, who lives to a ripe old age and is received into the Church as a septuagenarian.

Owen, who was killed a week before the fighting ended, used his haunting talent to tear down this “old lie”. Siegfried Sassoon, a shell-shocked survivor, was equally scathing in poems such as ...

I first came across Siegfried Sassoon in the pages of Robert ... and the winter snows deepest. (In Sassoon’s The Old Century, it’s always sunny, while Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man has the ...

Old Came Rectory was the home ... Even after his death, his former home was a meeting place for great minds. Siegfried Sassoon rented the property in the 1920s with fellow poet Edmund Blunden ...

Brian Gardner's paperback anthology Up the Line to Death is a fine selection ... I would say it has to be Siegfried Sassoon, whose poignant, ardent, often bitter, and sometimes lacerating verse ...

A decorated veteran of the Western Front before he turned conscientious objector, Sassoon knew of what he spoke. Sprinkling passages of his poetry over somber reams of old war footage ...