Siegfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967)

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With war on the horizon, a young Englishman whose life had heretofore been consumed with the protocol of fox-hunting, said goodbye to his idyllic life and rode off on his bicycle to join the Army. Siegfried Sassoon was perhaps the most innocent of the war poets. John Hildebidle has called Sassoon the "accidental hero." Born into a wealthy Jewish family in 1886, Sassoon lived the pastoral life of a young squire: fox-hunting, playing cricket, golfing and writing romantic verses. Being an innoc.. Continue..

Some of Siegfried Sassoon Poems

Suicide In The Trenches

Glory Of Women

Does It Matter?

Dreamers

The Dug-Out

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	If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

- Siegfried Sassoon

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