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Siegfried Sassoon
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English war poet and writer (1886-1967)
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Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) was a British writer, poet, and military personnel who served as a captain in the British Army during World War I. Born in Matfield, he was educated at Marlborough College and Clare College, University of Cambridge. His notable works include *Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man*, *Recreations*, *Sherston's progress*, *The Weald Of Youth*, and *fright in the forest*.
Sassoon received several honors, including the Military Cross, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. He was influenced by authors such as Thomas Hardy, E. M. Forster, Robert Graves, and Henry Vaughan. His papers are held in archives at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Cambridge University Library, Imperial War Museum London, and the New York Public Library Main Branch. He died in Heytesbury.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 8 September 1886
- Died
- 1 September 1967
- Works
- 177
Top works
- Recreations
- Sherston's progress
- The Weald Of Youth
- Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
- fright in the forest
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1886
- Active to
- 1967
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 763
- Total plays
- 2,335
Tags
Sassoon was born in a house named Weirleigh (which still stands) in the village of Matfield, Kent, to a Jewish father and a Protestant English mother. His father, Alfred, one of the wealthy Indian Baghdadi Jewish Sassoon merchant family, was disinherited for marrying outside the faith. His mother, Theresa, belonged to the Thornycroft family, sculptors responsible for many of the best-known statues in London—her brother was Sir Hamo Thornycroft. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Siegfried+Sassoo
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)
· 2017 · cited 6,309x
- MERRA: NASA’s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications
· 2011 · cited 3,895x
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,334x
- Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes
· 2020 · cited 2,826x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)<sup>1</sup>
· 2021 · cited 2,492x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Let no one ever, from henceforth say one word in any way countenancing war. It is dangerous even to speak of how here and there the individual may gain some hardship of soul by it. For war is hell, and those who institute it are criminals. Were there even anything to say for it, it should not be said; for its spiritual disasters far outweigh any of its advantages.”
- “Everyone suddenly burst out singing;And I was filled with such delightAs prisoned birds must find in freedom.”
- “The visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity.”
- “I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.”
- “Mute in the clamour of shells he watched them burst Spouting dark earth and wire with gusts from hell, While posturing giants dissolved in drifts of smoke. He crouched and flinched, dizzy with galloping fear, Sick for escape,— loathing the strangled horror And butchered, frantic gestures of the dead.”
- “Lost in a blurred confusion of yells and groans... Down, and down, and down, he sank and drowned, Bleeding to death. The counter-attack had failed.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Siegfried Loraine Sassoon , ( 1886-09-08 ) 8 September 1886, Matfield , Kent, England
- Died
- 1 September 1967 (1967-09-01) (aged 80), Heytesbury , Wiltshire, England
- Pen name
- Saul Kain Pinchbeck Lyre
- Occupation
- Soldier war poet writer
- Education
- Clare College, Cambridge Marlborough College New Beacon School
- Genre
- Poetry fiction biography
- Notable works
- The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston
- Spouse
- Hester Gatty ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1933 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 1945 )
- Children
- George
- Relatives
- Sassoon family
- Allegiance
- United Kingdom
- Branch
- British Army
- Service years
- 1914–1919
- Rank
- Captain
- Unit
- Sussex Yeomanry Royal Welch Fusiliers
- Conflicts
- First World War
- Awards
- Military Cross
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Siegfried
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Matfield
- Place of death
- Heytesbury
- Spouse
- Stephen Tennant
- Occupation
- poet
- Educated at
- Marlborough College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Award
- Hawthornden Prize
- Notable work
- Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
- Family
- Sassoon family
- Genre
- daily newspaper
- Conflict
- World War I
- Military branch
- British Army
- Military rank
- captain
- Image
- Siegfried Sassoon by George Charles Beresford (1915).jpg
- Residence
- Matfield
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- Commons category
- Siegfried Sassoon
- date of birth
- 1886-09-08
- date of death
- 1967-09-01
- influenced by
- Edmund Gosse
- archives at
- Harry Ransom Center
- sexual orientation
- homosexuality
- place of burial
- Somerset
- unmarried partner
- Stephen Tennant
- Commons Creator page
- Siegfried Sassoon
- writing language
- English language
- P12749
- Khyal
- birth name
- Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
Sources (11)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Siegfried Sassoon, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~32 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war 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 satirized the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war with his "Soldier's Declaration" of July 1917, which resulted in his being sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital. During this period, Sassoon met and formed a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume, fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the Sherston trilogy, which is made up of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Sherston's Progress (1936). Sassoon is also known for his poetry collection The Old Huntsman (1917).
Early life
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