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