About Siegfried Sassoon
Read Siegfried Sassoon most popular and best poems. Sassoon was an english poet and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war.Browse all poems and texts published on Siegfried Sassoon
The discovery in 2013 of an early draft of one of Sassoon's best-known anti-war poems had biographers saying they would rewrite portions of their work about the poet.
