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- Siegfried Sassoon was a prominent war poet known for his explicit language and mastery of meter and rhyme, addressing the harsh realities of World War I.
- His notable works include "Counter-Attack and Other Poems" (1918) and "War Poems" (1919), which captured the true feelings of soldiers and criticized an unending war.
- Sassoon's experiences in France, where he fought in 1915 and was wounded in 1917, heavily influenced his poetry and post-war writings.
- After the war, he continued to write, producing a successful trilogy of autobiographical novels and later works reflecting his conversion to Catholicism.
- Sassoon's philosophy of "no truth unfitting" significantly impacted later poetry and contributed to the development of Modernism.
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon was born in September 1886 in Kent. He studied at Cambridge University but didn't graduate.
He's remembered for his war poetry written during and after the First World War, like "Counter-Attack and Other Poems" (1918) and "War Poems" (1919)
In 1915 Sassoon went to fight in France but came back the following year to recover from fever.
In April 1917 was wounded and returned to England again.
after the war he continued to write poetry and prose, like "The Complete Memoirs of George Shertson", a successfull trilogy of autobiographical novels.
His post war work was characterized by his concerns, leading his conversion to Catholicism.
His religious poetry is considered inferior to his after war work.Sassoon died on 1 September 1967.
Sassoon's war poems used explicit language and had the perfect control of meter and rhyme.
His works provoked strong reactions in Britain because many criticized him for his lack of patriotism and for the violence of his poems, while others liked the books because of the true feelings of soldiers captured and the reaction against an unending war.
Sassoon used poetry to denounce the truths about war to a readership whose opinions were shaped only by pro-war propaganda.
Sassoon's "no truth unfitting" philosophy had an important impact on later poetry and on the development of Modernism.
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