Siegfried Sassoon Scorched Glory

Author : P. Moeyes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230374560

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Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory by P. Moeyes Pdf

Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory is the first survey of the poet's published work since his death and the first to draw on the edited diaries and letters. We learn how Sassoon's family background and Jewish inheritance, his troubled sexuality, his experience of war - in particular his public opposition to it - his relationship to the Georgian poets and other writers, and his eventual withdrawal to country life shaped his creativity. Sassoon's status as a war poet has overshadowed his wider achievements and the complex personality behind them. This critical evaluation of Sassoon's work is long overdue and will provide a valuable starting-point for future reappraisals of a writer for whom life and art were fused.

Author : Paul Moeyes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349394122

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Siegfried Sassoon Scorched Glory by Paul Moeyes Pdf

Author : Marcello Giovanelli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030884697

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The Language of Siegfried Sassoon by Marcello Giovanelli Pdf

This book presents a cognitive stylistic analysis of the writing of Siegfried Sassoon, a First World War poet who has typically been perceived as a poet of protest and irony, but whose work is in fact multi-faceted and complex in theme and shifted in style considerably throughout his lifetime. The author starts from the premise that a more systematic account of Sassoon’s style is possible using the methodology of contemporary stylistics, in particular Cognitive Grammar. Using this as a starting point, he revisits common ideas from Sassoon scholarship and reconfigures them through the lens of cognitive stylistics to provide a fresh perspective on Sassoon's style. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of stylistics, war poetry, twentieth-century literature, and cognitive linguistics.

Author : Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415967139

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Siegfried Sassoon by Jean Moorcroft Wilson Pdf

The World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon is one of the twentieth century's greatest icons and Jean Moorcroft Wilson is the leading authority on him. In Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches, the second volume of her best-selling, authorized biography, Wilson completes her definitive analysis of his life and works, exploring Sassoon's experiences after the Great War. For many people, Sassoon exists primarily as a First World War poet and bold fighter, who earned the nickname 'Mad Jack' in the trenches and risked Court Martial, possibly the firing squad, with his public protest against the War. Much less is known about his life after the Armistice. Wilson uncovers a series of love affairs with such larger-than-life characters as Queen Victoria's great-grandson, Prince Phillip of Hess, the flamboyant Ivor Novello and the exotic and bejeweled Hon. Stephen Tennant. This period also sees Sassoon establishing close friendships with some of the greatest literary figures of the age, Hardy, Beerbohm, E. M. Forster and T. E.Lawrence among them. Sassoon himself said that most people thought he had died in 1919. But Wilson shows that his poetry is, if anything, more powerful in the second half of his life. Based on a decade of meticulous research and interviews with many who knew Sassoon well, much of the material is published here for the first time. Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches completes a fascinating story that is beautifully told.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781535845410

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A Study Guide for Siegfried Sassoon's "Everyone Sang" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Siegfried Sassoon's "Everyone Sang", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410341600

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A Study Guide for Siegfried Sassoon's "Blighters" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Siegfried Sassoon's "Blighters," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : John Stuart Roberts
Publisher : Metro Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781857826401

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Siegfried Sassoon - The First Complete Biography of One of Our Greatest War Poets by John Stuart Roberts Pdf

Siegfried Sassoon is mostly remembered for the devastating poetry he wrote during World War One as a result of leading his troops "over the top" to certain death. This episode in his life--when he was sent to military hospital suffering from shell-shock and his heroic return to the Front--is covered extensively in his own writing, and has overshadowed his later literary output. But his more mature poetry is resuscitated in this sensitive, exhaustively researched biography. As well as recounting the friendships "Siggy" famously had with fellow poets Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen, Roberts delves into the more private arena of Sassoon's covert homosexuality and his ill-fated marriage. We learn about Sassoon the passionate golfer and bloodthirsty fox-hunter, all of which adds greater depth to this complex man. Roberts also digs deep into his subject's psyche to reveal a fixation with father figures which started during the War when he was under analysis (and arose from the early death of his father); and uncovers new sources of information concerning Sassoon's conversion to Catholicism. This fresh material means that the earlier life is somewhat neglected, but, then, as Sassoon himself said "My real biography is my poetry."

Author : Helen McPhail,Philip Guest
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780850528381

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Sassoon & Graves by Helen McPhail,Philip Guest Pdf

The war memoirs of these two officers with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers have never been out of print since their first publication. Both men won instant and enduring fame with these very different narratives, which made them two of the most influential participants in shaping later attitudes to the war. Graves gave offence in many quarters with his factual inaccuracies and/or slurs on various units of the British Army. Sassoon's nostalgic evocation of his cricketing and fox-hunting background contrast with the detailed narrative of personalities and life in the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Arras. The thinly disguised names of real fellow officers are unravelled to help illustrate Sassoon's poetry and actions.

Author : Ralf Schneider,Jane Potter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110422467

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Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War by Ralf Schneider,Jane Potter Pdf

The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today. The continuing interest in World War I highlights the interdependence of war experience, the imaginative re-creation of that experience in writing, and individual as well as collective memory. In the first part of the handbook, the major genres of war writing and film are addressed, including of course poetry and the novel, but also the short story; furthermore, it is shown how our conception of the Great War is broadened when looked at from the perspective of gender studies and post-colonial criticism. The chapters in the second part present close readings of important contributions to the literary and filmic representation of World War I in Great Britain. All in all, the contributions demonstrate how the opposing forces of focusing and canon-formation on the one hand, and broadening and revision of the canon on the other, have characterised British literature and culture of the First World War.

Author : Robert Hemmings
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748633074

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Modern Nostalgia by Robert Hemmings Pdf

This book explores Siegfried Sassoon's writing of the twenties, thirties and forties, demonstrating the connections between trauma and nostalgia in a culture saturated with the anxieties of war.Informed by the texts of Freud, W.H.R. Rivers and other psychological writers of the early twentieth century, as well as contemporary theorists of nostalgia and trauma, this book examines the pathology of nostalgia conveyed in Sassoon's unpublished poems, letters and journals, together with his published work. It situates his ongoing anxiety about 'Englishness', modernity, and his relation to modernist aesthetics, within the context of other literary responses to the legacy of war, and the threat of war's return, by writers including Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves and T. E. Lawrence.

Author : Haim Goren,Eran Dolev,Yigal Sheffy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857738875

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Palestine and World War I by Haim Goren,Eran Dolev,Yigal Sheffy Pdf

The Palestine Campaign has become one of the most glorified military campaigns of the twentieth century. The last campaign fought by the Ottoman Army, and thus the last act of the once-mighty Ottoman Empire, the Palestine Campaign saw the British Army under General Allenby conquer the Holy Land, forcing the Turkish army back into Europe. Meanwhile the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement ensured the British and French would continue to influence the Middle East for the next 60 years. This front saw some of the most influential stories of the Great War, from T.E. Lawrence's Arab army in the desert, to General Allenby entering Jerusalem on foot in 1917. Palestine and World War I shows how the events of the Great War have left a lasting legacy in the Middle East.

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3905 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136787430

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Encyclopedia of Life Writing by Margaretta Jolly Pdf

First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.

Author : Daniel Hipp
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780786421749

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The Poetry of Shell Shock by Daniel Hipp Pdf

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. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Stuart Sillars
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847603142

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Fields of Agony: British Poetry of the First World War by Stuart Sillars Pdf

A study of poetry written by men and women in all parts of the British Isles during the First World War, 1914â€"18. The book discusses significant individual poems by the writers named, exploring them within their social, political and aesthetic frames and.

Author : Tobey C Herzog
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351375030

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Tim O'Brien by Tobey C Herzog Pdf

This collection of seven essays, like the carefully linked collection of vignettes within Tim O’Brien’s most popular book The Things They Carried, contains multiple critical and biographical angles with recurring threads of life events, themes, characters, creative techniques, and references to all of O’Brien’s books. Grounded in through research, Herzog’s work illustrates how O’Brien merges his life experiences with his creative production; he rarely misses an opportunity to introduce these critical life events into his writing.