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Excellent study of the man and his work.
It is a commonplace observation that the Great War changed Western culture fundamentally and ineradicably,lending to formerly respectable sentimentslikeHorace's "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" an indelible bitterness.
Sassoon, one of the most prominent figures amongGreat War writers, producedainfluentialbody of poetry and memoirs which are accessible and worthwhile today, yet the man himselfis largely unknown, partly due to his own reticence. Moeyes, a Sassoon expert,in this admirably readable work tracesthe elusive writer'slife and careerwith examples of his poetry and prose, examines his relationships with contemporary literary figures,and places his work in the context ofGeorgian poetry.
Highly recommended for students ofEnglish literature in general,and Great War writing in particular.

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Text of the lecture delivered by Max Egremont on the life and bibliophilic activities of English poet and book collector Siegfried Sassoon at the Grolier Club in 2002 as part of the Robert L. Nikirk lecture series. ... Read more

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The British poets Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney, and Siegfried Sassoon found themselves psychologically altered by what they experienced in the First World War. Owen was hospitalized in April 1917 for “shell shock” in Scotland, where he met Siegfried Sassoon in June of that year, hospitalized for the same affliction. Ivor Gurney found the war, ironically, to have been a place of relative stability within an otherwise tormented life; When he was wounded during the war’s final year, his doctors observed signs of mental illness, which evolved into incapacitating psychosis by 1922. For each of these men—all poets before the war—poetry served as a way to inscribe continuity into their lives, enabling them to retaliate against the war’s propensity to render the lives of the participants discontinuous. Poetry allowed them to return to the war through memory and imagination, and poetry helped them to bring themselves back from psychological breakdown to a state of stability, based upon a relationship to the war that their literary war enabled them to create and discover. This work investigates the ways in which the poetry of war functioned as a means for these three men to express the inexpressible and to extract value out of the experience of war. Bibliography and index are also included. ... Read more

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Dr. Hipp's keen intellect
Dr. Hipp's tome wrestles with a great period of British Literature--World War I.The WWI literary field is as ripe as any, and Dr. Hipp takes on three of its giants.While Dr. Hipp is also known for his Nabokov scholarhip, he clearly is more than dabbling in this subject area.His book will soon be heavily referenced among students and scholars working in WWI literary history. ... Read more

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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."  Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

There are now 65,000  titles available  (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such as  Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon.

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more