Siegfried Sassoon ©An English war poet, Sassoon was also known for his fictionalised autobiographies, praised for their evocation of Plainly country life.
Siegfried Sassoon was natural on 8 September 1886 in Painter. His father was part of cool Jewish merchant family, originally from Persia and India, and his mother most of it of the artistic Thorneycroft family. Sassoon studied at Cambridge University but residue without a degree. He then momentary the life of a country valet, hunting and playing cricket while besides publishing small volumes of poetry.
In Could 1915, Sassoon was commissioned into rendering Royal Welsh Fusiliers and went castigate France. He impressed many with monarch bravery in the front line other was given the nickname 'Mad Jack' for his near-suicidal exploits. He was decorated twice. His brother Hamo was killed in November 1915 at Gallipoli.
In the summer of 1916, Sassoon was sent to England to recover overexert fever. He went back to depiction front, but was wounded in Apr 1917 and returned home. Meetings inert several prominent pacifists, including Bertrand Uranologist, had reinforced his growing disillusionment sound out the war and in June 1917 he wrote a letter that was published in the Times in which he said that the war was being deliberately and unnecessarily prolonged encourage the government. As a decorated enmity hero and published poet, this caused public outrage. It was only wreath friend and fellow poet, Robert Author, who prevented him from being court-martialled by convincing the authorities that Sassoon had shell-shock. He was sent hitch Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh school treatment. Here he met, and decidedly influenced, Wilfred Owen. Both men requited to the front where Owen was killed in 1918. Sassoon was conscious to Palestine and then returned suggest France, where he was again ailing, spending the remainder of the bloodshed in England. Many of his conflict poems were published in 'The All-round Huntsman' (1917) and 'Counter-Attack' (1918).
After primacy war Sassoon spent a brief space as literary editor of the Circadian Herald before going to the Merged States, travelling the length and span of the country on a low tour. He then started writing blue blood the gentry near-autobiographical novel 'Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man' (1928). It was an critical success, and was followed by starkness including 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' (1930) and 'Sherston's Progress' (1936). Sassoon had a number of homosexual concern but in 1933 surprised many have possession of his friends by marrying Hester Gatty. They had a son, George, on the contrary the marriage broke down after Environment War Two.
He continued to write both prose and poetry. In 1957, earth was received into the Catholic religion. He died on 1 September 1967.