The War Poems (Faber Pocket Poetry) - Softcover

Sassoon, Siegfried

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571202659 ISBN 13: 9780571202652

Publisher: Faber And Faber, 1999

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author:

The celebrated British poet, editor, critic, novelist, and diarist Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) enlisted for military service on the first day of World War I; his friends in the service included Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen. Sassoon's war poems were originally published in "The Old Huntsman" (1917) and "Counter-Attack" (1918). After the war, he went on to write several other books of poetry and criticism, as well as six volumes of prose autobiography.

Review:

“In later years, when Siegfried Sassoon had written much else in prose and verse, he was annoyed at always being referred to simply as a war poet, but it was the Great War that turned him into a poet of international fame, and I feel sure that his ghost will forgive me for thus bringing together these magnificently scarifying poems.” ―Rupert Hart-Davis, from his Introduction

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber And Faber
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0571202659
• ISBN 13: 9780571202652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 165