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Four queer WWI poets the world must remember on Armistice Day

Today (11 November) marks Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, which means a chance to stop and think about those ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

British poet Siegfried Sassoon ignored his Jewish heritage. A new biopic does the same.

(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 audience’s ...
The Virginian-Pilot

English war poet Siegfried Sassoon: A sad and beautiful new film, ‘Benediction,’ explores his life

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 ...
New York Sun

Poem of the Day: ‘Idyll’

Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Julian Grenfell, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, and Edward Thomas have in common at least the fact that they were English poets born sometime between 1875 and 1895 — and ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

‘Benediction’ is a shattering biopic of the English war poet Siegfried Sassoon

“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 sadness are ...