Siegfried Sassoon
Paperback | Pages: 290 pages Rating: 4.26 | 100 Users | 7 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Collected Poems, 1908-1956 |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Sassoon's fame as a novelist and autobiographer, and the success of his posthumously published Diaries, have somewhat obscured his achievement as a poet. Apart from the famous War Poems of 1919, which firmly established his reputation, he published eight volumes of verse during his lifetime. This collected edition represents his own choice of the poems he wished to preserve. It was first published in 1947 and subsequently enlarged to include the late poems in Sequences.
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| Title | : | Collected Poems, 1908-1956 |
| Author | : | Siegfried Sassoon |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 290 pages |
| Published | : | 2002 by Faber and Faber (first published January 1st 1961) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. War. World War I |
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Ratings: 4.26 From 100 Users | 7 ReviewsCritique About Books Collected Poems, 1908-1956
Genius!It's so easy just to classify Sassoon as "a war poet" but he comments on so much more that just war. His Satires were some of my favorites from this collection- sometimes scathing commentary on British life. The later poems evoke a sadness that perhaps clarify how Sassoon felt about Britain entering another world war twenty years after the first one ended.
Is it not a pity that we see war as so important it overshadows everything, so that a poet becomes a war poet although there is more to him than that.Maybe it would be better if we were more naive about war and less cynical about love. LoversYou were glad to-night: and now youve gone away.Flushed in the dark, you put your dreams to bed;But as you fall asleepI hear you sayThose tired sweet drowsy words we left unsaid.Sleep well: for I can follow you, to blessAnd lull your distant beauty where you
To these I turn, in these I trust;Brother Lead and Sister Steel.S SassoonThere is an anger to Sassoons poetry that like a riptide can make a shortcut directly into your brain, the visualisations that his words can create sting, sometimes unpleasantly, but always with an energy that is startling. The poems can catapult you into a trench or into a green village, and these written snapshots of Sassoons life often grant you an insight into your own. Anger, rage, humanity and humour combine with each
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE was born into a wealthy banking family, the middle of 3 brothers. His Anglican mother and Jewish father separated when he was five. He had little subsequent contact with Pappy, who died of TB 4 years later. He presented his mother with his first volume at 11. Sassoon spent his youth hunting, cricketing, reading, and writing. He was home-schooled until the age of 14
I came to this book after having read a biography of Sassoon and i think that that certainly gave an added aspect to the reading of the poems. OK 'not all of them are Bulls eyes' a lot of them are. Sharp observation, biting satire, heartbreaking love poems and even more heart rending angst.
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