War poetry
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War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, the term can be applied to poetry about any war, including Homer's Iliad, from around th
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War.
Ottoman miniature showing the Siege of Szigetvár.
Charles Stuart, romantic icon; from A History of Scotland for Boys and Girls by H. E. Marshall, published 1906
Commemorative stamp of American poet Walt Whitman in 1940
Siegfried Sassoon
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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
War poetry
…massacre. The 'War Poets' constitute an imperative presence in modern British literature with significant writers such as Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, David Jones, Ivor Gurney, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, and Isaac Rosenberg. Their work, which combined stark realism and bitter irony with a sense…
Portrait by George Charles Beresford, 1915
Sassoon (front) with his brother Hamo and other students on the morning after a college May Ball at Cambridge University in 1906
An agreement from Arthur Quiller-Couch to Sassoon to write for the Daily Herald