Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet, A biography (1886-1918)

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This book encompasses the complete life and works of Siegfried Sassoon, from his patriotic youth that led him to the frontline, to the formation of his anti-war convictions, great literary friendships and flamboyant love affairs.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415973830
ISBN-10: 041597383X
Pagini: 636
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 42 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Professional Practice & Development

Cuprins

Contents -- List of Plates Introduction -- 1. Heredities -- 2. Childhood in the Garden, 1886-1895 -- 3. Lutes and Nightingales, 1895-1900 -- 4. 'Harum-Scarum Schoolboy’, 1900-1904 -- 5. The Chancellor's Muddle, 1904-1907 -- 6. Sporting Squire and Gentleman Writer, 1907-1914 -- 7. Big London Where Poets Live, May-July 1914 -- 8. The Happy Warrior, August 1914-November 1915 -- 9. ‘Goodbye to Galahad’, November 1915-March 1916 -- 10. ‘At the Edge of the World’, March-July 1916 -- 11. ‘My Killed Friends are With Me’, August 1916-January 1917 -- 12. The Wounded Hero, February-April 1917 -- 13. ‘Love Drove Me to Rebel’, April-July 1917 -- 14. Strange Meeting, July-November 1917 -- 15. ‘Love Drives Me Back’, November 1917-May 1918 -- 16. The Good Soldier, May-July 1918 -- 17. ‘A Loathsome Ending’, July-November 1918 -- Afterword -- Family Trees -- Acknowledgements -- Endnotes -- A Select Bibliography Index.

Notă biografică

Jean Moorcroft Wilson is a lecturer in English at London University. Her previous books include biographies of Isaac Rosenberg and Charles Hamilton Sorley, as well as William Watson and Virginia Woolf. She is married to Virginia Woolf's nephew, with whom she runs a publishing house.

Recenzii

"Thoroughly absorbing." -- John Gross, The Sunday Telegraph
"A story in which the roots are as interesting as the core . . . invaluable to historians of the period." -- Andrew Motion, The Times (London)
"A necessary and engrossing piece of work." -- Neil Powell, Times Literary Supplement

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Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), soldier, poet, and witness to a century of war, is an icon of the twentieth century; Jean Moorcroft Wilson is the leading authority on him. In this two-volume biography, she offers her definitive analysis of his life and works. The first critically acclaimed volume, covering Sassoon's life up until the end of the Great War, offers rich material on his poetry, his patriotism, and his anti-war stance. In volume two, Moorcroft Wilson reveals the truth of Sassoon's life after the armistice, when most people thought he was dead; the story includes a series of love affairs with such larger-than-life characters as Queen Victoria's great-grandson, Prince Phillip of Hesse, the flamboyant Ivor Novello, and the exotic and bejeweled Stephen Tennant. But this was also the period of Sassoon's close friendships with the greatest literary figures of the age, including Hardy, Beerbohm, E.M. Forster, and T.E. Lawrence.

Written with the cooperation of Siegfried Sassoon's family and friends, and with access to a mass of private and unpublished material, poems, diaries, letters, and photographs, this meticulously researched biography will be the standard work on Sassoon's life and legacy.

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