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Siegfried Sassoon (1886 – 1967) Siegfried Sassoon was the product of two very different cultures, his Jewish father’s family of merchant princes from Baghdad and his English mother’s Thornycroft farming ancestors, turned sculptors, painters and engineers. The second of three sons, he grew up in rural Kent, where his father abandoned the ...
For while he coughed and mumbled, her weak eyes. Had shone with gentle triumph, brimmed with joy, Because he'd been so brave, her glorious boy. He thought how "Jack," cold-footed, useless swine, Had panicked down the trench that night the mine. Went up at Wicked Corner; how he'd tried.
Sir Philip Sassoon, John Singer Sargent, 1923. Tomb of David Sassoon, Pune, India. Sassoon's eight sons also branched out in many directions. The Sassoon family was heavily involved in the shipping and the opium trade in China and India. Elias David (1820–1880), his son by his first wife, had been the first of the sons to go to China, in 1844.
A Wikimédia Commons tartalmaz Siegfried Sassoon témájú médiaállományokat. Siegfried Loraine Sassoon ( Brenchley, Matfield, Kent, Anglia, 1886. szeptember 8. – Heytesbury, Wiltshire, Anglia, 1967. szeptember 1. ), angol költő és író. Elsősorban háborúellenes írásai és költeményei miatt ismert. Hatalmas feltűnést keltett ...
By Siegfried Sassoon. Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they stand, Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows. Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win. Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives. Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin.
Benediction is a 2021 biographical romantic drama film written and directed by Terence Davies. It stars Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi as the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, along with Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Kate Phillips, Gemma Jones, and Ben Daniels . Benediction was Davies' final film before his death in October 2023.
Siegfried Sassoon was a celebrated First World War poet. He was decorated for bravery during action but became increasingly critical of the nature of war publishing a letter in the Times. He survived the conflict and continued a successful literary career. Short Biography Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Sassoon was born 8 September in Matfield, Kent, UK. […]
