Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

A selective list of online literary criticism for the British war poet Siegfried Sassoon, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites

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Literary criticism

Egremont, Max. A review of Siegfried Sassoon: A Life, NY Times, 12/27/05.

Moore, L. Hugh. "Siegfried Sassoon and Georgian Realism." Moore contends that "while Sassoon's early verse is definitely Georgian, this tradition contained realistic tendencies that culminated in the directness, brutality, and honesty of his best war verses." Twentieth Century Literature 14 (1969)

Rand, Thomas. "Edith Sitwell as letter writer: Reading the letters to Siegfried Sassoon." Papers on Language and Literature (Winter 1995).

"Voices of the Great War: Siegfried Sassoon." The Great War PBS.

"Siegfried Sassoon." Historic Figures, BBC. An introduction to Sassoon.

Manuscript holdings of Sassoon's poems and letters at Cambridge U.

Web sites

Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship, an association "founded to celebrate the work and life of this remarkable author and man." Pres. Dennis Silk. A biography of Sassoon and news about the Fellowship.

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