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Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon was born in London and educated at Marlborough College and Clare College, Cambridge. His early enthusiasms were for sports, especially hunting, and for poetry. He joined the army in 1914 and won the MC, but later tried unsuccessfully to organise public opposition to the war. The anti-war poems of The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counterattack (1918), for which he is best known today, were followed by volumes of religious verse including Vigils (1935) and Sequences (1956). Sassoon also wrote several charming semi-autobiographical prose-works beginning with Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man (1928).
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McEwan, N. (1989). Siegfried Sassoon 1886–1967. In: McEwan, N. (eds) The Twentieth Century (1900–present). Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20151-8_27
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