An essentially private person, Siegfried Sassoon's work nevertheless constitutes a chorus of self-revelation. John Stuart Roberts has written the first full length biography of this complex man. A quintessential Edwardian gentleman, who celebrated the English countryside in his much-loved quasi-autobiography, "The Sherston Trilogy", Sassoon nevertheless owed his poetic vision to Sephardic Jewish roots abandoned by his dilettante father before his son's birth. His friendships and contacts ranged widely from Thomas Hardy and Edmund Gosse to the Sitwells, Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, T.E. Lawrence, Eddie Marsh and Stephen Tennant. In writing this biography, John Stuart Roberts has had access to much unpublished material, including the Hart-Davis papers which contain the diaries covering the last 30 years of Sassoon's life, and also to correspondence between Sassoon and Eddie Marsh, Edmund Blunden and Dame Felicitas Corrigan OSB. His interviews have ranged from Mother Margaret Mary to cricketer Dennis Silk and poet Ian Davie. Sassoon's homosexuality is examined sensitively, and the war poems are discussed in full, while his inner journey to Catholicism in his final years is charted.
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John Stuart Roberts was the editor of Everyman and Heart of the Matter and is a former Head of Television, BBC Wales. He first read Sassoon's work in a second-hand bookshop in Swansea in 1958, since then he has made the poet a lifetime's study.
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Unveiling a memorial stone to Walter de la Mare in 1961, Siegfried Sassoon told his listeners in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral how fifty years earlier he had first encountered the de la Mare magic in the poem 'All That Is Past'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eddie Marsh, Uncle Hamo, Tufton Street, Robert Graves, Edith Olivier, Edmund Gosse, The Old Century, Siegfried Sassoon, Dame Felicitas, David Thomas, Robbie Ross, Stephen Tennant, Edmund Blunden, Helen Waddell, Mother Margaret Mary, New York, Medical Board, Rex Whistler, Osbert Sitwell, Rupert Hart-Davis, The Tasking, Cecil Beaton, Infantry Officer, Max Beerbohm, Muriel Galsworthy New!
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Unveiling a memorial stone to Walter de la Mare in 1961, Siegfried Sassoon told his listeners in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral how fifty years earlier he had first encountered the de la Mare magic in the poem 'All That Is Past'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eddie Marsh, Uncle Hamo, Tufton Street, Robert Graves, Edith Olivier, Edmund Gosse, The Old Century, Siegfried Sassoon, Dame Felicitas, David Thomas, Robbie Ross, Stephen Tennant, Edmund Blunden, Helen Waddell, Mother Margaret Mary, New York, Medical Board, Rex Whistler, Osbert Sitwell, Rupert Hart-Davis, The Tasking, Cecil Beaton, Infantry Officer, Max Beerbohm, Muriel Galsworthy New!
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- Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (Faber Paperbacks) by Siegfried Sassoon on 23 pages
- The Old Huntsman and Other Poems by Siegfried Sassoon on 9 pages
- The Weald of Youth by Siegfried Sassoon on 8 pages
- Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon on 7 pages
- Goodbye to All That (Penguin Modern Classics) by Robert Graves on 4 pages
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- God and the British Soldier: Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars (Christianity and Society in the Modern World) by Michael Snape in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford in Back Matter
- Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity by Sophie Fuller on page 187
- I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford in Back Matter
- Trauma and Life Stories (Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative) by With Graham Dawson in Front Matter
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