Review: Siegfried Sassoon: A Life, by Max EgremontJournal of Historical BiographyreviewbiographySiegfried SassoonMax Egremont...Benjamin E. WiseUniversity of the Fraser ValleyWise, E.Benjamin."Review of Siegfried Sassoon: A Life, by Max Egremont", Journal of Historical Biography 3 (Spring, 2008):...
Siegfried Sassoon : a lifeSiegfried Sassoon : a lifeSiegfried Sassoon : a life, Max Egremont. 0374263752 (alk. paper), Toronto Public LibraryMax EgremontMacmillanEgremont, Max. Siegfried Sassoon: A Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Print.Egremont...
There are two aspects to the 1886-1967 life of Captain Siegfried Sassoon, MC (he liked to use his rank and was proud of his medal) that make him a worthy biographical subject. The first is his literary achievement, essentially his war poems and his prose memoirs. Although he felt he ...
Wilson's generosity is her greatest flaw. Sassoon's artistic life after World War I was a retreating and a turning inward, as his years as autobiographer attest to. This retreat took place in and around New York and London in the midst of one of the most vibrant flowerings of literary ...
In a signature Davies touch, this middle portion of Sassoon’s life is inaugurated by a surrealist representation of the gunshot that took him entirely out of military service—a metaphorical shock to an until then restrained system. As Sassoon’s star rises, so do his prestigious confidantes ...
Siegfried Sassoon was an English poet and novelist known for his antiwar poetry about his service in World War I and for his fictionalized autobiographies, which drew praise for their evocation of English country life.