Siegfried Sassoon: A Study of the War Poetry

by Patrick Campbell

Book Overview

Though Siegfried Sassoon would argue the point throughout his life, most critics regard his war poetry, written during World War I, as the best of his writings. Like many of his artistic contemporaries, Sassoon embraced the "Great War for Civilization" with great fervor, and it was this passion that he brought to his earliest writings about the war. "Absolution," his first war poem, published in 1915, summed up his feelings: "fighting for our...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786432446
• ISBN13: 9780786432448
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher