In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the armistice of World War I, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will host the temporary display “Siegfried Sassoon: Scrapbook & Owen Johnson: ...

Then, in the late 1990s, two biographies appeared. In 1998, Jean Moorcroft-Wilson published the first of a two-volume life, taking Sassoon to the end of the First World War (the second volume appeared ...

SHERSTON’S PROGRESS—Siegfried Sassoon—Doubleday, Doran ($2.00). The World War of a thousand novels from Barbusse’s Under Fire to Celine’s Journey to the End of the Night, is presented with unqualified ...

4,100-page archive was until now only accessible to the poet’s official biographer London: The war diaries of English poet Siegfried Sassoon have been published online for the first time, revealing ...

What immediately impresses about Siegfried Sassoon's poem is its controlled brutality, assisted by the expert versification and its finally conclusive rhyme. The Battle of Arras, fought in April to ...

Siegfried Sassoon remains best known for his war poetry - more properly, his anti-war poetry. Although he continued to write until his death at 81, his literary career was not just launched by the ...

A new book called “The Love That Dares” offers a collection of letters and poems exploring LGBTQ love and friendship. Some of those whose words are quoted are famous, some are not so famous. Some had ...

Next Monday, the Irish President, Michael D Higgins, will join an official commemoration at Mons in Belgium to mark the start of the First World War, on August 4, 1914. As a poet himself, I am sure ...

For the first time, the war diaries of British poet Siegfried Sassoon have been published online, revealing early drafts and unpuplished material caked with mud from the trenches. Due to the delicate ...