War Poems

by Siegfried Sassoon

Overview

Epigrammatic and bitterly satirical verses by the well-known English poet convey the shocking brutality and pointlessness of World War I. Over 80 works include "Counter-Attack," "They," "The General," and "Base Details."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486834849
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	09/12/2018
Series:	Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	438 KB

About the Author

The first English soldier-poet to achieve notoriety as an opponent of World War I, Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) ranks alongside Wilfred Owen as one of the most critical poetic voices of the Great War. A literary dilettante before his experiences in the trenches, Sassoon went on to write the acclaimed Sherston novels, a trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies.

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CHAPTER 1

ABSOLUTION

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Table of Contents

Absolution
Brothers
The Dragon and the Undying
France
To Victory
When I'm among a Blaze of Lights …
Golgotha
A Mystic as Soldier
The Kiss
The Redeemer
A Subaltern
"In the Pink"
A Working Party
A Whispered Tale
"Blighters"
At Carnoy
To His Dead Body
Two Hundred Years After
"They"
Stand-to: Good Friday Morning
The One-Legged Man
Enemies
The Tombstone-Maker
Arms and the Man
Died of Wounds
The Hero
Stretcher Case
Conscripts
The Road
Secret Music
Haunted
Before the Battle
The Death-Bed
The Last Meeting
A Letter Home
Prelude: The Troops
Counter-Attack
The Rear-Guard
Wirers
Attack
Dreamers
How to Die
The Effect
Twelve Months After
The Fathers
Base Details
Lamentations
Does It Matter?
Fight to a Finish
Editorial Impressions
Suicide in the Trenches
Glory of Women
Their Frailty
The Hawthorn Tree
The Investiture
Trench Duty
Break of Day
To Any Dead Officer
Sick Leave
Banishment
Song-Books of the War
Thrushes
Autumn
Invocation
Repression of War Experience
The Triumph
Survivors
Joy-Bells
Remorse
Dead Musicians
The Dream
In Barracks
Together
Battalion Relief
The Dug-Out
I Stood With the Dead
In an Underground Dressing-Station
Atrocities
Return of the Heroes
Concert Party
Night on the Convoy
Reconciliation
Memorial Tablet
Aftermath
Everyone Sang
Memory
Devotion to Duty

Editorial Reviews

In later years, when Siegfried Sassoon had written much else in prose and verse, he was annoyed at always being referred to simply as a war poet, but it was the Great War that turned him into a poet of international fame, and I feel sure that his ghost will forgive me for thus bringing together these magnificently scarifying poems.” —Rupert Hart-Davis, from his Introduction

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