Short Poetry Collection 005 (Librivox Short Poetry, #5) By Siegfried Sassoon
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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE was born into a wealthy banking family the middle of 3 brothers His Anglican mother and Jewish father separated when he was five He had little subsequent contact with Pappy who died of TB 4 years later He presented his mother with his first volume at 11 Sassoon spent his youth hunting cricketing reading and writing He was home schooled until the age of 14 because of ill health At school he was academically mediocre and teased for being un athletic unusually old and Jewish He attended Clare College Cambridge but left without taking his degree In 1911 Sassoon read The Intermediate Sex by Edward Carpenter a book about homosexuality which was a revelation for Sassoon In 1913 he wrote The Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE was born into a wealthy banking family the middle of 3 brothers His Anglican mother and Jewish father separated when he was five He had little subsequent contact with Pappy who died of TB 4 years later He presented his mother with his first volume at 11 Sassoon spent his youth hunting cricketing reading and writing He was home schooled until the age of 14 because of ill health At school he was academically mediocre and teased for being un athletic unusually old and Jewish He attended Clare College Cambridge but left without taking his degree In 1911 Sassoon read The Intermediate Sex by Edward Carpenter a book about homosexuality which was a revelation for Sassoon In 1913 he wrote The Daffodil Murderer a parody of a John Masefield poem and his only pre war success A patriotic man he enlisted on 3rd August the day before Britain entered the war as a trooper in the Sussex Yeomanry After a riding accident which put him out of action in May 1915 he joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a second lieutenant At the training depot he met David Thomas with whom he fell in love In November Sassoon received word that his brother Hamo had died at Gallipoli On 17th Nov he was shipped to France with David Thomas He was assigned to C Company First Battalion It was here that he met Robert Graves described in his diary as a young poet in Third Battalion and very much disliked He took part in working parties but no combat He later became transport officer and so managed to stay out of the front lines After time on leave on the 18th of May 1916 he received word that David Thomas had died of a bullet to the throat Both Graves and Sassoon were distraught and in Siegfried s case it inspired the lust to kill He abandoned transport duties and went out on patrols whenever possible desperate to kill as many Germans as he could earning him the nickname Mad Jack In April he was recommended for the Military Cross for his action in bringing in the dead and wounded after a raid He received his medal on the day before the Somme For the first days of the Somme he was in reserve opposite Fricourt watching the slaughter from a ridge Fricourt was successfully taken and on the 4th July the First Battalion moved up to the front line to attack Mametz Wood It was here that he famously took a trench single handed Unfortunately Siegfried did nothing to consolidate the trench he simply sat down and read a book later returning to a berating from Graves It was in 1917 convalescing in Blighty from a wound that he decided to make a stand against the war Encouraged by pacifist friends he ignored his orders to return to duty and issued a declaration against the war The army refused to court martial him sending him instead to Craiglockhart an institution for soldiers driven mad by the war Here he met and influenced site_link Wilfred Owen In 1918 he briefly returned to active service in Palestine and then France again but after being wounded by friendly fire he ended the war convalescing He reached the rank of captain After the war he made a predictably unhappy marriage and had a son George He continued to write but will be remembered as a war poet site_link.
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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE was born into a wealthy banking family the middle of 3 brothers His Anglican mother and Jewish father separated when he was five He had little subsequent contact with Pappy who died of TB 4 years later He presented his mother with his first volume at 11 Sassoon spent his youth hunting cricketing reading and writing He was home schooled until the age of 14 because of ill health At school he was academically mediocre and teased for being un athletic unusually old and Jewish He attended Clare College Cambridge but left without taking his degree In 1911 Sassoon read The Intermediate Sex by Edward Carpenter a book about homosexuality which was a revelation for Sassoon In 1913 he wrote The Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE was born into a wealthy banking family the middle of 3 brothers His Anglican mother and Jewish father separated when he was five He had little subsequent contact with Pappy who died of TB 4 years later He presented his mother with his first volume at 11 Sassoon spent his youth hunting cricketing reading and writing He was home schooled until the age of 14 because of ill health At school he was academically mediocre and teased for being un athletic unusually old and Jewish He attended Clare College Cambridge but left without taking his degree In 1911 Sassoon read The Intermediate Sex by Edward Carpenter a book about homosexuality which was a revelation for Sassoon In 1913 he wrote The Daffodil Murderer a parody of a John Masefield poem and his only pre war success A patriotic man he enlisted on 3rd August the day before Britain entered the war as a trooper in the Sussex Yeomanry After a riding accident which put him out of action in May 1915 he joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a second lieutenant At the training depot he met David Thomas with whom he fell in love In November Sassoon received word that his brother Hamo had died at Gallipoli On 17th Nov he was shipped to France with David Thomas He was assigned to C Company First Battalion It was here that he met Robert Graves described in his diary as a young poet in Third Battalion and very much disliked He took part in working parties but no combat He later became transport officer and so managed to stay out of the front lines After time on leave on the 18th of May 1916 he received word that David Thomas had died of a bullet to the throat Both Graves and Sassoon were distraught and in Siegfried s case it inspired the lust to kill He abandoned transport duties and went out on patrols whenever possible desperate to kill as many Germans as he could earning him the nickname Mad Jack In April he was recommended for the Military Cross for his action in bringing in the dead and wounded after a raid He received his medal on the day before the Somme For the first days of the Somme he was in reserve opposite Fricourt watching the slaughter from a ridge Fricourt was successfully taken and on the 4th July the First Battalion moved up to the front line to attack Mametz Wood It was here that he famously took a trench single handed Unfortunately Siegfried did nothing to consolidate the trench he simply sat down and read a book later returning to a berating from Graves It was in 1917 convalescing in Blighty from a wound that he decided to make a stand against the war Encouraged by pacifist friends he ignored his orders to return to duty and issued a declaration against the war The army refused to court martial him sending him instead to Craiglockhart an institution for soldiers driven mad by the war Here he met and influenced site_link Wilfred Owen In 1918 he briefly returned to active service in Palestine and then France again but after being wounded by friendly fire he ended the war convalescing He reached the rank of captain After the war he made a predictably unhappy marriage and had a son George He continued to write but will be remembered as a war poet site_link.