Tag: Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon Scorched Glory A Critical Study


Free Download Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory: A Critical Study By Paul Moeyes
1997 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0333632850 | PDF | 18 MB
Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory is the first survey of the poet’s published work since his death and the first to draw on the edited diaries and letters. We learn how Sassoon’s family background and Jewish inheritance, his troubled sexuality, his experience of war – in particular his public opposition to it – his relationship to the Georgian poets and other writers, and his eventual withdrawal to country life shaped his creativity. Sassoon’s status as a war poet has overshadowed his wider achievements and the complex personality behind them. This critical evaluation of Sassoon’s work is long overdue and will provide a valuable starting-point for future reappraisals of a writer for whom life and art were fused.

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Siegfried Sassoon Soldier, Poet, Lover, Friend


Free Download Jean Moorcroft Wilson, "Siegfried Sassoon: Soldier, Poet, Lover, Friend"
English | 2014 | pages: 629 | ISBN: 1468308521 | EPUB | 7,7 mb
Hailed as "invaluable" by the Times and "thorough and perceptive" by the Observer, Siegfried Sassoon encompasses the poet’s complete life and works, from his patriotic youth that led him to the frontline, and flamboyant love affairs. This single-volume opus also includes never-before-published poems that have only just come to light through the author’s work. With over a decade’s research, and unparalleled access to Sassoon’s private correspondence, Wilson presents the complete portrait, both elegant and heartfelt, of an extraordinary man, and an extraordinary poet.

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