Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western...
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World War I poets, Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) was David's great-grandson. James Sassoon, Baron Sassoon James Sassoon, Baron Sassoon, born as James Meyer...
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linguist, translator and author. Sassoon was the only child of the poet Siegfried Sassoon and his wife Hester Gatty, who were living mainly at Heytesbury House...
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Wilfred Owen (section Relationship with Sassoon)
horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time...
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Julius Beer Alfred Ezra Sassoon (1861–1895); married Theresa Thornycroft Michael Thorneycroft Sassoon (1884–1969) Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), war poet...
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of Hugh Meyer Sassoon (first cousin of Siegfried Sassoon) and Marion (née Schiff); he is the great-great grandson of Sassoon David Sassoon. He was educated...
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Terence Davies. It stars Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi as the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, along with Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Kate Phillips, Gemma...
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discussing hidden memories of trauma and dissecting war nightmares. Siegfried Sassoon records that he would record his dreams to be dissected by Rivers...
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also starred alongside Tamara Lawrance and Fiona Shaw. He portrayed Siegfried Sassoon in the 2022 biopic Benediction. Lowden was announced to star in the...
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Very British Scandal, Max in Afterlife of the Party, and portrayed Siegfried Sassoon in The Laureate. Timothy Renouf was born in Jersey, the second of...
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Sherston trilogy is a series of books by the English poet and novelist Siegfried Sassoon, consisting of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry...
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The General (poem) (category Poems by Siegfried Sassoon)
English war poet Siegfried Sassoon that takes place in World War I, specifically in the Battle of Arras. Written in April 1917 from Sassoon's hospital bed...
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and Siegfried Sassoon first performed in 1982 at the Edinburgh Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. The play has only two characters: Owen and Sassoon. The...
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war in England. One of Graves's friends at this time was the poet Siegfried Sassoon, a fellow officer in his regiment. They both convalesced at Somerville...
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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (category Books by Siegfried Sassoon)
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is a novel by Siegfried Sassoon, first published in 1928 by Faber and Faber. Originally published anonymously, it went on...
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Shlomo-David's, Sassoon was born on 17 March 1860 in Baghdad, Iraq. He was a cousin of the celebrated English war poet and author Siegfried Sassoon, through...
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Dennis Silk (section Friendship with Sassoon)
Radley College from 1968 to 1991. He was a close friend of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, of whom he spoke and wrote extensively. In the 1990s he chaired the...
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literature with significant writers such as Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, David Jones, Ivor Gurney, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, and Isaac...
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the editor of the hospital magazine, The Hydra, and met the poet Siegfried Sassoon, who was to have a major impact upon his life and work and to play...
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intellectual circles, where she befriended writers including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and artists including Mark Gertler...
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Suicide in the Trenches (category Poems by Siegfried Sassoon)
poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) composed in response to World War I, reflecting his own notable service in that especially bloody conflict. Sassoon was...
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (category Books by Siegfried Sassoon)
Infantry Officer is a novel by Siegfried Sassoon, first published in 1930. It is a fictionalised account of Sassoon's own life during and immediately...
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Stephen Tennant (category Siegfried Sassoon)
1920s and 1930s Tennant had a long time sexual affair with the poet Siegfried Sassoon. Prior to this he had proposed to a friend, Elizabeth Lowndes, but...
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The Old Huntsman (category Books by Siegfried Sassoon)
collection of poems by Siegfried Sassoon and the name of the first poem in the collection. It contains one of the famous poems of Sassoon, "The Death Bed."...
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individuals present at the hospital including poets and patients, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, and psychiatrist W.H.R. Rivers, who pioneered treatments...
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of poets and a friend to many poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. In his career as a civil servant he worked as private secretary to...
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Rothschild. His sister was Sybil Sassoon, who married the Marquess of Cholmondeley. He was a cousin of the war poet Siegfried Sassoon. He was descended from the...
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together a number of noted War poets, featuring the story-line of Siegfried Sassoon in the main story — after his open letter reprinted in The Times condemning...
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Reconciliation (poem) (category Poems by Siegfried Sassoon)
"Reconciliation" was a war poem by Siegfried Sassoon. Written in November 1918, around the time the Armistice was signed, and in response to it, it is...
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Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence, Walter de la Mare, Siegfried Sassoon, Ralph Hodgson, and John Drinkwater. Until the final two volumes,...
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