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Informationen zum Autor Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. He served in the trenches during the First World War, where he began to write the poems for which he is remembered. Despatched as 'shell-shocked' to hospital, he organised public protest against the war. His poetry initially met with little response, but his reputation grew steadily in the following decades. Apart from the War Poems of 1919, he published eight volumes of verse during his lifetime. But it is as a novelist and autobiographer that he is perhaps better known. Sassoon's semi-autobiographical trilogy, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1936), was outstandingly successful. He published several more volumes of autobiography, including Siegfried's Journey (1945), before his death in 1967. Klappentext Sassoon was one of the first poets to define a generation, and this collection, ordered chronologically, is re-published for the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day. Siegfried Sassoon's The War Poems are re-published for the ninetieth anniversary of the end of the Great War. Zusammenfassung Siegfried Sassoon is one of the First World War poets whose poetry has defined a generation. He published most of his war poetry in The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918). Chronologically ordered! the poems in this collection act as a timeline for the war! bringing to life the extraordinary experiences of soldiers in that conflict.
