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This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2005. The length of the article is 3364 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Rediscovering Sassoon.(Siegfried Sassoon: A Life)(Book Review)
Author: Brooke Allen
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 24Issue: 3Page: 15(6)

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This digital document is an article from English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2006. The length of the article is 1466 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Poetry of Shell Shock.(The Poetry of Shell Shock: Wartime Trauma and Healing in Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney and Siegfried Sassoon)(Book review)
Author: Martin Bidney
Publication: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 49Issue: 3Page: 350(4)

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Though Siegfried Sassoon would argue the point throughout his life, most critics regard his war poetry, written during World War I, as the best of his writings. Like many of his artistic contemporaries, Sassoon embraced the "Great War for Civilization" with great fervor, and it was this passion that he brought to his earliest writings about the war. "Absolution," his first war poem, published in 1915, summed up his feelings: "fighting for our freedom, we are free."

Fighting on the frontlines, Sassoon soon came to the conviction that his war for civilization was anything but civilized. And thus his writings took on a new tone, courageously denouncing a conflict that was no longer about "defense and liberation" but was for "aggression and conquest." Through primary documents and extensive research, the current work provides critical analyses of Sassoon's war poetry. Detailed examinations of each of the so-called trench poems show how the poet and his poetry were transformed through his wartime experiences and give the rationale for the critical consensus that the Sassoon canon is among the most significant in the literature of modern warfare. ... Read more