This new edition of poems draws from poems published during and shortly after the First World War by Siegfried Sassoon. Also included are several early poems showing his early na?ve ignorance of the terrible reality of war, prior to the death of his brother in 1915 and his experiences at the front, and later Sassoon's A Soldier's Declaration, which marks his break with the military authorities. Such was the uproar caused by his statement, which was...
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