Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war.
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- University of CambridgeClare CollegeMarlborough CollegeNew Beacon School
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- 🏆 Hawthornden Prize🏆 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
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1886
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