Siegfried Sassoon
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- 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
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- Listeners
- 763
- Total plays
- 2,335
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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
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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
Key dates
- Born
- 8 September 1886
- Died
- 1 September 1967
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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
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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).
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1886 births1967 deaths20th-century English Jews20th-century English LGBTQ people20th-century English male writers20th-century English memoirists20th-century English novelists20th-century English poets20th-century Roman CatholicsAlumni of Clare College, CambridgeBaghdadi JewsBritish Army personnel of World War I