brindlerp Posted 4 January , 2004 Share Posted 4 January , 2004 A very good biography site at http://www.sassoonery.demon.co.uk/ "This site is most unusual. It combines the best of humankind with the worst. It reproduces here some of the most elegant and blunt poetry with some of the most brilliant visual artistry of the time. Unfortunately the art and poetry describe one of the worst things humans can do to one another. The legalized murder called war. Here then is one poet's view of this odd human pass-time." http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8103/index.html Regards Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyHollinger Posted 4 January , 2004 Share Posted 4 January , 2004 Sassoon was one of my earliest introductions to the first war, Graves being the first. I found an old copy of Diary of a Fox Hunting Man in a used bookstore and picked it up. My first novel is dedicated to George Sherston ... I think the Sassoon's work is beautiful and moving ... but he is determined to see the world as a tarnished reflection of the beauty of the antebellum state ... Now, I see his work and that of Graves' as the "sensless slaughter" sort of stuff ... Right as they may be it isn't "reality" since we've yet to have a war when nobody came ... I often wonder, though, if the German Socialists had stuck to their guns and opted out of the war, whether history could have avoided war - not just this one, but others as well. When we look at Wars and see causes and results ... national forces at work, - all that "macro" stuff, I wonder if Kur Vonnegut didn't have it right about national forces and patriotism ... if we were planetary patriots, much of this wouldn't happen. I don't know ... just some inherent 1960s pacifism seeping out after looking at People magazine's three page spread showing all the people killed in Iraqnam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Bramley Posted 4 January , 2004 Share Posted 4 January , 2004 A couple of other sites that may be of interest. Poets of the Great War Robert Graves trust Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ian Bowbrick Posted 5 January , 2004 Share Posted 5 January , 2004 He has his own plaque now on a new house built last year on the site of the house he lived in from 1919 to 1925. It is on the corner of where Bennetts Yard meets Tufton Street in SW1. Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 6 January , 2004 Share Posted 6 January , 2004 Last year I read and thoroughly enjoyed the 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man' and I am looking forward to getting hold of the rest of the Sherston trilogy. It is interesting to contrast the career/attitudes of Siegfried with those of his relative [cousin?] Sir Philip A. G. D. Sassoon who was very much part of the establishment. Eton, Oxford, Member of Parliament, military private secretary to the C in C, Sir Douglas Haig etc. etc. After the war, in '20-'22, he was PPS to the Prime Minister, Lloyd George and I think that he had a hand in helping his old boss Haig get his bounty from a grateful nation Regards Michael D.R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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