Siegfried Sassoon
Poet, Author
1886 – 1967
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Who was Siegfried Sassoon?
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC was an eminent English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. He later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy".
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- Born
- Sep 8, 1886
Matfield - Also known as
- Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
- Sassoon, Siegfried
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Clare College, Cambridge
- Marlborough College
- University of Cambridge
- New Beacon School
- Employment
- Literary Editor, The Daily Herald Company
- Lived in
- Matfield
- Died
- Sep 1, 1967
Heytesbury
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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