War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon - Softcover

Sassoon, Siegfried

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486437159 ISBN 13: 9780486437156

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2004

Synopsis

At the dawn of World War I, poet Sassoon exchanged his pastoral pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. This collection of his epigrammatic and satirical poetry conveys the shocking brutality and pointlessness of the Great War and includes "Counter-Attack," "'They," "The General," and "Base Details."

About this title

About the Author:

The celebrated British poet, editor, critic, novelist, and diarist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) enlisted for military service on the first day of World War I; his friends in the service included Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen. Sassoon's war poems were originally published in "The Old Huntsman" (1917) and "Counter-Attack" (1918). After the war, he went on to write several other books of poetry and criticism, as well as six volumes of prose autobiography.

Review:

“In later years, when Siegfried Sassoon had written much else in prose and verse, he was annoyed at always being referred to simply as a war poet, but it was the Great War that turned him into a poet of international fame, and I feel sure that his ghost will forgive me for thus bringing together these magnificently scarifying poems.” ―Rupert Hart-Davis, from his Introduction

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0486437159
• ISBN 13: 9780486437156
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 128