Nearly two dozen diaries and notebooks of Siegfried Sassoon — among a ... Although Sassoon survived the war and went on to write novels as well as poetry, dying in 1967 at age 80, other WWI ...

Some of Siegfried Sassoon's diaries still bear marks of mud and candle wax from World War I. An officer in the British forces, Sassoon was also a poet—among the group whose work vividly ...

Sprinkling passages of his poetry over somber reams of old war footage ... near the end of Sassoon’s life. (An acerbic Peter Capaldi plays the older, disillusioned Siegfried; Gemma Jones ...

The diaries of war poet Siegfried Sassoon, stained with mud from the bloody killing fields of the Somme, will be placed online for the first time by Cambridge University today. His collection of ...

It's on the life of English poet Siegfried Sassoon, one of the leading poets of World War I. Lt. Siegfried Sassoon was a model British officer decorated for his daring and valor in the trenches of ...

Sprinkling passages of his poetry over somber reams of old war footage ... near the end of Sassoon’s life. (An acerbic Peter Capaldi plays the older, disillusioned Siegfried; Gemma Jones ...

Two unpublished poems by Siegfried Sassoon will be given ... that time that made the writing of the First World War poets so extraordinary. Sassoon remained a fine poet, but if Rupert Brooke ...

Siegfried Sassoon, a shell-shocked survivor ... with a range of poems that broaden our understanding of what war poetry can be. As Duffy writes in a foreword: “The poets of these pages write ...

JTA — “Benediction,” a new biopic of the British anti-war poet Siegfried Sassoon, opens with a Sassoon poem called “Concert Interpretation.” In it, the author describes a British ...

I first came across Siegfried Sassoon in the pages of Robert Graves’ memoir of the First World War, Goodbye to All That ... and talked about poetry. In spite of Graves’ best intentions ...

“Benediction,” Terence Davies’ achingly beautiful portrait of the English war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon, is a movie of acute sadness and intense pleasure. The pleasure and the ...