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fictitious experts based on their personalities.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Entitled simply Siegfried Sassoon this biography conducts the reader through the poet's 81 years at a gentle pace.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Poems of Wilfrid Owen, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon and Edward Thomas, with associated tutorial.
Unlike yer Owens and yer Sassoons (Siegfried and his brother Vidal.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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As well as the poets Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon and Edward Thomas the seminar looks at women poets in the First World War.
There are, of course, the obligatory poems by the famous war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as the well-known poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae.
Even Siegfried Sassoon's first war poems, written before he had experienced war at first hand, showed he hadn't yet shaken off an old-fashioned romantic view of it.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Owing to Sassoon's reluctance to help, Thorpe produced a literary-critical study, rather than a standard biography, as the title Siegfried Sassoon: A Critical Study indicates.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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The next three volumes of Sassoon's autobiography were The Old Century and Seven More Years (1938), The Weald of Youth (1942) and Siegfried's Journey (1945)
Siegfried Sassoon was one of the first writers brave enough to use poetry to describe war as it really is: brutalising, destructive, horrific, and an indefensible waste of human lives.
Several characters like Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfried Owen and Robert Graves were both poets and soldiers during the war.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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As secretary of the Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship, it would be wrong of me not to comment on the portrayal of Sassoon and the account of his relationship with Owen given in this book.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer is a classic of WW1 fiction.
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