Nearly two dozen diaries and notebooks of Siegfried Sassoon — among a handful of prominent soldier-poets whose artistic sensibilities were forged in the trenches of World War I — are being published ...
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 captured the ...
In Terence Davies’s Benediction, poetry’s treated as alive a medium as any. That’s as it should be, for the biographical film, which tracks the real-life English wartime poet Siegfried Sassoon, ...
Above : Jack Lowden stars as the poet Siegfried Sassoon in the Terence Davies film “Benediction.” (Photo/Roadside Attractions) Movie review : “Benediction,” written and directed by Terence Davies, ...
The hell where youth and laughter go. 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 ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A World War One bravery medal awarded to Siegfried Sassoon -- which the anti-war poet is widely thought to have thrown in the River Mersey -- has been discovered in an attic and ...
He is considered by many critics to be England's greatest living filmmaker, even though he has made less than ten movies. Terence Davies would also be on anyone's list of the foremost gay ...
Movie review: "Benediction," written and directed by Terence Davies, starring Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Jeremy Irvine, Calam Lynch, Kate Phillips, Gemma Jones, Richard Goulding. Playing in theaters ...