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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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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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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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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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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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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Dennis Silk (section Friendship with Sassoon)
and a public school headmaster. 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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W. H. R. Rivers (section Rivers and Sassoon)
returned to combat. Rivers' most famous patient was the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he remained close friends until his own sudden death. During...
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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. It won both the Hawthornden Prize and the James...
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Wagner Siegfried "Fritz" Flesch (1872–1939), Austrian saber fencer Siegfried Translateur (1875–1944), Austrian composer of dance music Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)...
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January 1974) was an English poet, author, and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose...
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publisher of educational games The Sherston trilogy, a series of books by Siegfried Sassoon This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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Probably the most famous patients of Craiglockhart were the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, whose poems appeared in the hospital's own magazine...
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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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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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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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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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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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faded into relative obscurity as those of war poets such as Owen and Siegfried Sassoon have grown. Born in Leicester, she was educated at North London Collegiate...
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appointed to be the official biographer of Siegfried Sassoon by Sassoon's son George. Egremont's Siegfried Sassoon came out in 2005 and was short listed for...
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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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time, Novello had an affair with the writer Siegfried Sassoon; it was short-lived, but in the words of Sassoon's biographer John Stuart Roberts, Novello "was...
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