Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet, A biography (1886-1918)

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), soldier, poet, and witness to a century of war, is an icon of the twentieth century; Jean Moorcroft Wilson is the leading authority on him. In this two-volume biography, she offers her definitive analysis of his life and works. The first critically acclaimed volume, covering Sassoon's life up until the end of the Great War, offers rich material on his poetry, his patriotism, and his anti-war stance. In volume two, Moorcroft Wilson reveals the truth of Sassoon's life after the armistice, when most people thought he was dead; the story includes a series of love affairs with such larger-than-life characters as Queen Victoria's great-grandson, Prince Phillip of Hesse, the flamboyant Ivor Novello, and the exotic and bejeweled Stephen Tennant. But this was also the period of Sassoon's close friendships with the greatest literary figures of the age, including Hardy, Beerbohm, E.M. Forster, and T.E. Lawrence.

Written with the cooperation of Siegfried Sassoon's family and friends, and with access to a mass of private and unpublished material, poems, diaries, letters, and photographs, this meticulously researched biography will be the standard work on Sassoon's life and legacy.

Author: Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/02/2014
Pages: 564
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.76h x 6.34w x 1.46d
ISBN: 9780415973847

About the Author

Jean Moorcroft Wilson is a lecturer in English at London University. Her previous books include biographies ofIsaac Rosenberg and Charles Hamilton Sorley, as well asWilliam Watson and Virginia Woolf. She is married to Virginia Woolf's nephew, with whom she runs a publishing house.