Further Reading
- Barth, R. L., “Sassoon's ‘Counter-Attack,’” Explicator 49, No. 2 (Winter 1991): 117-8. (Offers brief critical analysis of the poem “Counter-Attack.”)
- Bergonzi, Bernard, “Poets III: Sassoon,” in his Heroes' Twilight, pp. 92-108. London: Constable, 1965. (Analyzes Sassoon's depiction of the war, declaring that he was "a poet of narrow but direct effects.")
- Blunden, Edmund, “Siegfried Sassoon's Poetry,” in his Edmund Blunden: A Selection of his Poetry and Prose made by Kenneth Hopkins, pp. 310-24. London: Hart-Davis, 1950. (Positive assessment of Sassoon's work that praises him as "a poet of considerable productiveness" whose work is "as readable as it is copious.")
- Caesar, Adrian, “Siegfried Sassoon,” in his Taking it Like a Man: Suffering Sexuality, and the War Poets Brooke, Sassoon, Owen, Graves, pp. 60-114. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993. (Reexamines Sassoon's intellectual development, military experiences, and attitudes concerning warfare and suffering as reflected in his World War I poetry.)
- Campbell, Patrick, “Sassoon's ‘Blighters,’” Explicator 53, No. 3 (Spring 1995): 170-1. (Offers brief critical analysis of the poem “Blighters.”)
- Chase, Lewis, Review of Counter-Attack, The New Republic XVII, No. 216 (December 21, 1918): 227-28. (Comments on the bitterness expressed in Sassoon's collection but also notes a trace of idealism in the poet's "appreciation of beauty.")
- Corrigan, D. Felicitas, “Introduction,” in Siegfried Sassoon: Poet's Pilgrimage, edited by D. Felicitas Corrigan, pp. 15-42. London: Victor Gollancz, 1973. (Provides an overview of Sassoon's literary career, artistic development, and religious sensibility.)
- Drinkwater, John, “Two ‘New Poets’ and Their War Poems as Mr. Drinkwater Sees Them,” New York Times Review of Books (9 May 1920): 235, 246. (A positive review of Picture Show.)
- Fairchild, Hoxie Neale, 'Toward Hysteria,' in Religious Trends in English Poetry, Volume V: Gods of A Changing Poetry, pp. 578-627. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. (Considers Sassoon's war verse as an expression of psychological illness and compares his work to that of contemporaries such as Wilfred Owen.)
- Graves, Robert, Goodbye to All That. London: Cape, 1929, 446 p. (Memoir of the war that contains numerous references to Sassoon and his poetry.)
- Hibberd, Dominic, “Some Notes on Sassoon's Counter-Attack and Other Poems,” Notes and Queries 29, No. 4 (August 1982): 341-2. (Discusses the order of composition, revision, and publication of Sassoon's poetry in Counter-Attack and Other Poems as revealed in one of his wartime notebooks.)
- Hillyer, Robert, “Great and Civilized,” The Saturday Review XXXII, No. 5 (January 29, 1949): 28. (Views the volume Collected Poems as an autobiography and proclaims Sassoon "a major poet.")
- Johnston, John H., “Realism and Satire: Siegfried Sassoon,” in his English Poetry of the First World War: A Study in the Evolution of Lyric and Narrative Form, pp. 71-112. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964. (Provides an overview of the dominant themes, style, and artistic development of Sassoon's war poetry.)
- Keynes, Sir Geoffrey, A Bibliography of Siegfried Sassoon. London: Hart-Davis, 1962, 199 p.
- Lehmann, John, “Owen and Sassoon,” in The English Poets of the First World War, pp. 37-62. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1981. (Discusses the expression of Sassoon's war experiences in his poetry and Sassoon's association with Wilfred Owen.)
- Levi, Peter, “Sassoon at Eighty,” The Poetry Review LVIII, No. 3 (Autumn 1966): 171-73. (Laudatory essay that declares that Sassoon has been "important in the history of modern poetry.")
- Shanks, Edward, Review of Satirical Poems, The Saturday Review 141, No. 3683 (May 29, 1926): 653-54. (Maintains that Sassoon's collection fails as satire because the poet does not feel strongly enough about the subjects he addresses.)
- Shawen, Edgar McD., “Sassoon's ‘How to Die,’” Explicator 48, No. 3 (Spring 1990): 206-8. (Offers brief critical analysis of the poem “How to Die.”)
- Walton, Eda Lou, “The Later Poetry of Siegfried Sassoon,” New York Herald Tribune Books 12, No. 27 (March 8, 1936): 7. (Asserts that the poems in Vigils have several flaws but that they provide "an interesting human document" that testifies to the continuing effect the war had on Sassoon.)
- Wilson, Edmund, “Two Books That Leave You Blank: Carson McCullers, Siegfried Sassoon,” New Yorker (30 March 1946): 87-8. (A negative review of Siegfried's Journey.)
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