Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet. A Biography (1886-1918) Volume I

Wilson, Jean Moorcroft

ISBN 10: 0715628941 / ISBN 13: 9780715628942

Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, London, 1999

About this Item

1999, First Edition second impression of the paperback edition. Size octavo, 600 pages including index. Paperback with large photograph of Sassoon. Condition near fine, corners very slightly rubbed, else fine, contents very clean. The first volume of the Biography of the War Poet.

Seller Inventory # 014881

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet. A Biography (1886-1918) Volume I
• Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0715628941
• ISBN 13: 9780715628942
• Binding: Paper Back
• Edition: First Edition, Second Impression
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Celebrated as the author of some of the most moving war poems and of the "Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man", Sassoon's inner feelings have nonetheless remained imprisoned in his diaries. Using many of his private letters and papers, this first volume of Sassoon's biography traces his life as one of the Gilded Youth of the Great War generation and the first modern figure of our century.

Review

'... the first volume of what promises to be the definitive biography of an important and neglected poet.' -- Robert Nye, The Scotsman

'A compelling tale' -- Ian Hamilton, Sunday Telegraph

'A story in which the roots are as interesting as the core ... invaluable to historians of the period.' -- Andrew Motion, The Times

'Thorough and perceptive' -- Jeremy Lewis, Observer