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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 the artistic Thorneycroft family.
Born in 1886, Siegfried Sassoon studied history and law at Cambridge before enlisting in the ranks of the Sussex Yeomanry in August 1914. A poet of little note before the war, he became one of the best-known - and most controversial - poets and novelists to emerge from the First World War as a result of his increasingly anti-war stance.
Siegfried Sassoon (1886 – 1967) Siegfried Sassoon was the product of two very different cultures, his Jewish father’s family of merchant princes from Baghdad and his English mother’s Thornycroft farming ancestors, turned sculptors, painters and engineers. The second of three sons, he grew up in rural Kent, where his father abandoned the ...
Siegfried Sassoon went to school at Marlborough College before going on to Cambridge to read history. He left in 1907 without taking his degree. Sassoon took a commission with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in May 195 but ended the war in Craiglockhart War Hospital suffering, it is said, from shell shock. In his 1928 autobiography, Continue Reading »
The poet Captain Siegfried Sassoon’s controversial ‘Soldier’s Declaration’ was written on 15 June 1917, and published a month later in 'The Times'. His service notebooks, which have recently been digitised by the National Army Museum, show that Sassoon was at first a typical officer who was actually in favour of the war.
He spins and burns and loves the air, And splits a skull to win my praise; But up the nobly marching days. She glitters naked, cold and fair. Sweet Sister, grant your soldier this: That in good fury he may feel. The body where he sets his heel. Quail from your downward darting kiss. To these I turn, in these I trust—.
5 de abr. de 2024 · Siegfried Sassoon (born Sept. 8, 1886, Brenchley, Kent, Eng.—died Sept. 1, 1967, Heytesbury, Wiltshire) was an English poet and novelist, known for his antiwar poetry and for his fictionalized autobiographies, praised for their evocation of English country life. Sassoon enlisted in World War I and was twice wounded seriously while serving as ...
