Siegfried Sassoon

John Stuart Roberts (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2005 | New edition
Metro Books, London (Verlag)
978-1-84358-138-3 (ISBN)

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Although it is said that he owed his poetic vision to his Sephardic Jewish roots, Siegfried Sassoon was, in many ways, a conventionally Edwardian squire. And although near-suicidal bravery won him the Military Cross (Sassoon was famously fictionalized in Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy), his poetry shattered the ideals of wartime heroism. A gifted poet who refused to become part of any literary movement, his friendships ranged from Thomas Hardy and Robert Graves to the Sitwells, Rupert Brooke, and T.E. Lawrence. In this acclaimed biography, John Stuart Roberts skillfully chronicles Sassoon's life and work, including his homosexuality, his marriage, and his quest for a personal religious faith. His inner journey to Catholicism in his final years is charted with a sensitivity and authority that are the hallmarks of this masterly portrait.

John Stuart Roberts was the editor of Everyman and Heart of the Matter and is a former Head of Television, BBC Wales. He first read Sassoon's work in a second-hand bookshop in Swansea in 1958, since then he has made the poet a lifetime's study.

'An immensely readable biography which is made even more moving by having a truly tragic subject.' Elizabeth Lowry, Times Literary Supplement Siegfried Sassoon is amongst the greatest of British war poets. In collections The Old Huntsman and Counter Attack, written during the First World War, he established himself as a lasting and authentic voice in British poetry. In this, the first complete biography of his life which has become required reading amongst his many of fans, John Stuart Roberts reveals the truth behind a very private persona. 'The first complete biography of one of our greatest war poets.' The Sunday Times

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2005
Zusatzinfo	16ill.
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-84358-138-8 / 1843581388
ISBN-13	978-1-84358-138-3 / 9781843581383
Zustand	Neuware