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Siegfried Sassoon

 

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Charlotte Mew : The Farmer's Bride

'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred Scawen Blunt [...] found the situations in Charlotte [Mew]'s poems puzzling and questioned their "sexual sincerity". Siegfried Sassoon was captivated at once and remained her faithful reader always. A. E. Housman [...] liked the little book, although he complained [in letter of 9 September 1918] that, like most female poets, Miss Mew put in ornament that did not suit the speaker.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      Print: Book

  

Charlotte Mew : "Sea Love"

'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Monthly Chapbook". On the last page was Charlotte [Mew]'s "Sea Love", certainly a new poem, which delighted both of them (and delighted [Thomas] Hardy too when it arrived at Max Gate).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Charlotte Mew : "Madeleine in Church"

'Louis Untermeyer [an American poet] [...] had [...] been carried away by "Madeleine[in Church]" when Siegfried Sassoon read it to him [in 1920]'.

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      

  

Thomas Hardy : 

'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had been "following parallel trenches all our lives" and "had more friends in common, authors I mean, than most people can boast of in a lifetime". By chance, Sassoon was reading a small volume of Keats which Lady Ottoline [Morrel] had sent him. He shared Owen's interest in the late-Victorian poets, including Housman, whose influence is often apparent in his war poems, but Owen was surprised to discover that he admired Hardy "more than anybody living". No doubt Sassoon persuaded him to start reading Hardy's poems. In return, Owen showed him Tailhade's book'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      Print: Book

  

John Keats : 

'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had been "following parallel trenches all our lives" and "had more friends in common, authors I mean, than most people can boast of in a lifetime". By chance, Sassoon was reading a small volume of Keats which Lady Ottoline [Morrel] had sent him. He shared Owen's interest in the late-Victorian poets, including Housman, whose influence is often apparent in his war poems, but Owen was surprised to discover that he admired Hardy "more than anybody living". No doubt Sassoon persuaded him to start reading Hardy's poems. In return, Owen showed him Tailhade's book'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      Print: Book

  

Alfred Edward Housman : 

'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had been "following parallel trenches all our lives" and "had more friends in common, authors I mean, than most people can boast of in a lifetime". By chance, Sassoon was reading a small volume of Keats which Lady Ottoline [Morrel] had sent him. He shared Owen's interest in the late-Victorian poets, including Housman, whose influence is often apparent in his war poems, but Owen was surprised to discover that he admired Hardy "more than anybody living". No doubt Sassoon persuaded him to start reading Hardy's poems. In return, Owen showed him Tailhade's book'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      Print: Book

  

Henri Barbusse : Under Fire

'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such passionate political conviction. The English translation, "Under Fire", appeared in June 1917 and Sassoon was reading it by mid-August; he lent it to Owen, who seems to have read it at Craiglockhart and again in December'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried sassoon      Print: Book

  

Robert Graves : 

'Robert Graves lent me his manuscript poems to read: some very bad, violent and repulsive. A few full of promise and real beauty. He oughtn't to publish yet.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      

  

 : Saturday Review

'Here I sit reading the Saturday Review, New Statesman etc and feeling rather humpy.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Thomas Hardy : The Return of the Native

'I keep reading Tess and The Return of the Native -- they fit in admirably with my thoughts.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      Print: Book

  

Robert Curzon : Visits to Monasteries in the Lavant

'Another sharp frost and thick fog this morning. Reading Curzon's Monasteries in the Lavant which Meiklejohn sent me at Christmas. More amusing than Eothen, but Doughty's Arabia Deserta spoils one for every other book of that sort.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Siegfried Sassoon      Print: Book

 

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