Siegfried Sasson Biography
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| Siegfried Sasson |
Siegfried
Sasson was a major soldier-poet to fight and survive in the First World War of
1914-18. He was born in Kent, England in 1886. He had his education at
Marlborough and Clare College, Cambridge. He was a quite admirable student and
did his academic career well. When the First World War started, he joined the
force. He went through the bitter and dreadful reality of war. Of course, he
was fortunate enough to survive the massacre on the front.
Siegfried
Sasson was inspired by his mother in his childhood to become a poet. He had an
intense love for writing even from his early childhood. He wrote pamphlets and
poems privately. His joining in the First World War started his new venture in
war poetry. He had the first hand knowledge of the trench warfare. He started
writing poems in the trench. The brutal killing of his soldier comrades on the
battlefield ached him much. He found in war nothing of patriotism and glory.
Like his comrade-poet Wilfred Owen, he wrote poems on the brutal, inhuman
business of killing in war. He exposes in his poetry brutality and hypocrisy,
rampant in war.
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| Siegfried Sasson |
After
his return from action, Siegfried Sasson went on writing particularly poems on
war. He also wrote some prose works, including his own memoirs. His poetical
works include—Poems (1906), The Old Hunter man (1917), Counter-attack (1918),
War Poems (1919), Satirical Poems (1926), The Heart’s Journey (1928) and so on.
As a writer of prose, he has to his credit—Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man (1928),
Memoirs of an Infantry officer (1930) and Sherston’s Progress (1936). His
biographical works The Old Century and Seven More Years, The Weald of Youth and
Siegfried’s Journey were published in 1938, 1942 and 1945 respectively.
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