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Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory - A Critical Study (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
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Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory - A Critical Study (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
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Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) is today chiefly remembered for his
Great War poetry. His celebrated Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is a
classic of autobiography in fictional form, yet the rest of
Sassoon's long literary career and his place within the Georgian
movement have not yet received sustained critical attention.
Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory is the first survey of the poet's
published work since his death and the first to draw on the edited
diaries and letters. Taking his lead from Sassoon's declaration
that his poetry was his 'real biography', Paul Moeyes traces
Sassoon's literary development within the context of his
autobiographical writings. We learn how Sassoon's family background
and Jewish inheritance, his troubled sexuality, his experience of
war - in particular his public opposition to it - his relationship
to the Georgian poets and other writers, and his eventual
withdrawal to country life shaped his creativity. Throughout his
career Sassoon experimented with poetic form, with varying degrees
of success, but it was in the Sherston trilogy and his
autobiographies that he found his true voice, evoking a bygone age
of pastoral contentment and social order rooted in class. Sassoon's
status as a war poet has overshadowed his wider achievements and
the complex personality behind them. This critical evaluation of
Sassoon's work is long overdue and will provide a valuable
starting-point for future reappraisals of a writer for whom life
and art were fused.
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