Siegfried Sassoon (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Siegfried Sassoon is nearly as well known for his prose works as for his poetry. During the twenty years from 1926 to 1945, he spent most of his time working on the two trilogies that form the bulk of his work in prose. The first of these was the three-volume fictionalized autobiography published in 1937 as The Memoirs of George Sherston. It begins in Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928), by recounting the life of a well-to-do young country squire in Georgian England up to his first experiences as an officer in World War I. The second volume,...
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