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Ferdinand Mount: Tea with Sassoon, 7 August 2003
Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet 1886-1918
by Jean Moorcroft Wilson.
Duckworth, 600 pp., £9.99, September 2002,0 7156 2894 1 Show More
by Jean Moorcroft Wilson.
Duckworth, 600 pp., £9.99, September 2002,
Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches 1918-67
by Jean Moorcroft Wilson.
Duckworth, 526 pp., £30, April 2003,0 7156 2971 9 Show More
by Jean Moorcroft Wilson.
Duckworth, 526 pp., £30, April 2003,
Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil
by Peter Stansky.
Yale, 295 pp., £25, April 2003,0 300 09547 3 Show More
by Peter Stansky.
Yale, 295 pp., £25, April 2003,
“... stuff on the Georgians, to whom he attached himself through the early influence of Eddie Marsh and Edmund Gosse (correspondingly they did not much care for the raw tone of his war poetry). But it was Sassoon’s own inclination to look back to lost worlds and the happy days of his youth that kept him so stubbornly hostile to T.S. Eliot and to Modernism in ... ”