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Sassoon's Friends

Author : Elias Sassoon
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557191300
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Sassoon's Friends written by Elias Sassoon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was tall, dark and one hell of a handsome, sexy woman, still roaring to go even in her late forties. She bounced through the bar wearing her tight pink sweater, tight black leather pants and high-heeled, high-rising black boots. Her nails were long like a cat and red. Her eyes burned with desire. There, a man of good build, wide chest, and tight rump, stood. Not a bad face, she thought. Yes, he might do. From: Swing A Soft Stick. So begins one of Elias Sassoon's often humorous, thoughtful, and entertaining stories in Sassoon's Friends.

Siegfried Sassoon - The First Complete Biography of One of Our Greatest War Poets

Author : John Stuart Roberts
Publisher : Metro Publishing
ISBN 13 : 185782640X
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Siegfried Sassoon - The First Complete Biography of One of Our Greatest War Poets written by John Stuart Roberts and published by Metro Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siegfried Sassoon is mostly remembered for the devastating poetry he wrote during World War One as a result of leading his troops "over the top" to certain death. This episode in his life--when he was sent to military hospital suffering from shell-shock and his heroic return to the Front--is covered extensively in his own writing, and has overshadowed his later literary output. But his more mature poetry is resuscitated in this sensitive, exhaustively researched biography. As well as recounting the friendships "Siggy" famously had with fellow poets Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen, Roberts delves into the more private arena of Sassoon's covert homosexuality and his ill-fated marriage. We learn about Sassoon the passionate golfer and bloodthirsty fox-hunter, all of which adds greater depth to this complex man. Roberts also digs deep into his subject's psyche to reveal a fixation with father figures which started during the War when he was under analysis (and arose from the early death of his father); and uncovers new sources of information concerning Sassoon's conversion to Catholicism. This fresh material means that the earlier life is somewhat neglected, but, then, as Sassoon himself said "My real biography is my poetry."

Siegfried Sassoon

Author : Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040277535
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Siegfried Sassoon written by Jean Moorcroft Wilson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book encompasses the complete life and works of Siegfried Sassoon, from his patriotic youth that led him to the frontline, to the formation of his anti-war convictions, great literary friendships and flamboyant love affairs.

Sassoon & Graves

Author : Helen McPhail
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850528380
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Sassoon & Graves written by Helen McPhail and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war memoirs of these two officers with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers have never been out of print since their first publication. Both men won instant and enduring fame with these very different narratives, which made them two of the most influential participants in shaping later attitudes to the war. Graves gave offence in many quarters with his factual inaccuracies and/or slurs on various units of the British Army. Sassoon's nostalgic evocation of his cricketing and fox-hunting background contrast with the detailed narrative of personalities and life in the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Arras. The thinly disguised names of real fellow officers are unravelled to help illustrate Sassoon's poetry and actions.

Sassoon's Heart Beatings: the Collected Poetry of Elias Sassoon

Author : Elias Sassoon
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557432898
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Sassoon's Heart Beatings: the Collected Poetry of Elias Sassoon written by Elias Sassoon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are fifteen chapters in this book of poetry. In each chapter there are appropriately 20 to 25 poems. The chapters topics include ones exploring self, humor, places Iâ€™ve been, early youth, relationships with my father and mother, one on ravings, another on death, and another on personalities from work, among others. Here is one poem of the many: CHILD COUNTINGCounting now.Today putting the digits together.One, two, three, four, six.No says the teacher, wrong says the teacher.One, three, four, five, six.No says the teacher, wrong says the teacher.One, two, four, five, six.Wrong again says the teacher.The boy looks at the teacher.The boy says to the teacher.It doesn't matter at all ever.The teacher looks at the boy.The teacher says.One, two, three, four, five, six.The close of another school day.

Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory

Author : P. Moeyes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230374565
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory written by P. Moeyes and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-03-24 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siegfried Sassoon: Scorched Glory is the first survey of the poet's published work since his death and the first to draw on the edited diaries and letters. We learn how Sassoon's family background and Jewish inheritance, his troubled sexuality, his experience of war - in particular his public opposition to it - his relationship to the Georgian poets and other writers, and his eventual withdrawal to country life shaped his creativity. Sassoon's status as a war poet has overshadowed his wider achievements and the complex personality behind them. This critical evaluation of Sassoon's work is long overdue and will provide a valuable starting-point for future reappraisals of a writer for whom life and art were fused.

The Generation of 1914

Author : Robert WOHL
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674045300
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Generation of 1914 written by Robert WOHL and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the generation of French, German, English, Spanish, and Italian young men who fought in World War I.

The Sassoons

Author : Joseph Sassoon
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0593316606
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Sassoons written by Joseph Sassoon and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade—cotton, opium, shipping, banking—that reached across three continents and ultimately changed the destinies of nations. With full access to rare family photographs and archives. “Engaging...compelling...well-paced and supremely satisfying. ”—The New York Times They were one of the richest families in the world for two hundred years, from the 19th century to the 20th, and were known as ‘the Rothschilds of the East.’ Mesopotamian in origin, and for more than forty years the chief treasurers to the pashas of Baghdad and Basra, they were forced to flee to Bushir on the Persian Gulf; David Sassoon and sons starting over with nothing, and beginning to trade in India in cotton and opium. The Sassoons soon were building textile mills and factories, and setting up branches in shipping in China, and expanding beyond, to Japan, and further west, to Paris and London. They became members of British parliament; were knighted; and owned and edited Britain’s leading newspapers, including The Sunday Times and The Observer. And in 1887, the exalted dynasty of Sassoon joined forces with the banking empire of Rothschild and were soon joined by marriage, fusing together two of the biggest Jewish commerce and banking families in the world. Against the monumental canvas of two centuries of the Ottoman Empire and the changing face of the Far East, across Europe and Great Britain during the time of its farthest reach, Joseph Sassoon gives us a riveting generational saga of the making of this magnificent family dynasty.

Poetry of the First World War

Author : Tim Kendall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191642045
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Poetry of the First World War written by Tim Kendall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War. A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. Although the War has now passed out of living memory, its haunting of our language and culture has not been exorcised. Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us.

Narrative Skepticism

Author : Linda Schermer Raphael
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639009
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Skepticism written by Linda Schermer Raphael and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using narrative, philosophical, and psychoanalytic theory, Linda S. Raphael investigates the development of skepticism in narrative. She argues that as authors explore more deeply the inner life of characters, their narratives become more skeptical about pinning down what it means to lead a good life. This argument is buttressed through a close examination of Jane Austen's 'Persuasion', George Eliot's 'Middlemarch', Henry James's 'The Wings of the Dove', Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway', and Karzo Ishiguro's 'The Remains of the Day.'

World War I

Author : Eugene Edward Beiriger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book World War I written by Eugene Edward Beiriger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the war on the Western and Southern fronts and inclusive of material from all sides of the conflict, this book explores the novels and poems of significant soldier-writers alongside important contemporary historical documents. The literary works of the First World War are one of the richest sources we have for understanding one of the twentieth century's most significant conflicts. Not only do many of them have historical merit, but some were critically acclaimed by both contemporaries and subsequent scholars. For example, Henri Barbusse's Under Fire, one of the earliest novels of the war, won accolades in France and the respect of war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen as well as novelists Erich Maria Remarque and Ernest Hemingway. This book examines these works and those of war poets Rupert Brooke and John McCrae and others, providing context as well as opportunities to explore thematic elements with primary source documents, such as diaries, letters, memoirs, newspaper and journal articles, speeches, and government publications. It is unique in its use of literary and historical sources as mediums by which to both better understand the literature of the war and use literature to better understand the war itself.

Edward Carpenter

Author : Sheila Rowbotham
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844674215
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Edward Carpenter written by Sheila Rowbotham and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gay socialist writer Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A mystic advocate of, among other causes, free love, recycling, nudism, women’s suffrage and prison reform, his work anticipated the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Sheila Rowbotham’s highly acclaimed biography situates Carpenter’s life and thought in relation to the social, aesthetic and intellectual movements of his day, and explores his friendships with figures such as Walt Whitman, E.M. Forster, Isadora Duncan and Emma Goldman. Edward Carpenter is a compelling portrait of a man described by contemporaries as a ‘weather-vane’ for his times.

The Sassoons

Author : Esther da Costa Meyer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300264305
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Sassoons written by Esther da Costa Meyer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the global history of the Sassoon family, entrepreneurs and patrons of remarkable art and architecture, from Baghdad to Mumbai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and London The Sassoons were prosperous as bankers and treasurers to the Ottoman sultans in nineteenth-century Baghdad, until they were driven out by religious persecution and economic pressures. Assuming the precarious status of stateless Jews, the family dispersed, establishing businesses in Mumbai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and London. Their wealth enabled them to collect splendid works of art from the various cultures that welcomed them. This volume tells the sweeping global story of the Sassoon family through the works of art they collected. Lavishly illustrated with paintings, porcelain, manuscripts, Judaica, and architecture, it foregrounds family members who were patrons of art and sponsors of remarkable buildings, highlighting the role of the family's accomplished women. Rachel Sassoon was editor of both the Times and the Observer newspapers in London at the turn of the twentieth century. The renowned war poet Siegfried Sassoon was a cousin. Victor Sassoon hosted the glitterati of the 1920s and 1930s at his Cathay Hotel in Shanghai. This fascinating and elegant book--with gilt edges and a ribbon bookmark--features a family tree and explores generations of Sassoons for whom art was not only a mark of their arrival in the rarefied world of the upper class but a pleasure in itself. Published in association with the Jewish Museum, New York Exhibition Schedule: Jewish Museum, New York (March 3-August 13, 2023)

Siegfried Sassoon

Author : Patrick Campbell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786432446
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Siegfried Sassoon written by Patrick Campbell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Siegfried Sassoon would argue the point throughout his life, most critics regard his war poetry, written during World War I, as the best of his writings. Like many of his artistic contemporaries, Sassoon embraced the "Great War for Civilization" with great fervor, and it was this passion that he brought to his earliest writings about the war. "Absolution," his first war poem, published in 1915, summed up his feelings: "fighting for our freedom, we are free." Fighting on the frontlines, Sassoon soon came to the conviction that his war for civilization was anything but civilized. And thus his writings took on a new tone, courageously denouncing a conflict that was no longer about "defense and liberation" but was for "aggression and conquest." Through primary documents and extensive research, the current work provides critical analyses of Sassoon's war poetry. Detailed examinations of each of the so-called trench poems show how the poet and his poetry were transformed through his wartime experiences and give the rationale for the critical consensus that the Sassoon canon is among the most significant in the literature of modern warfare.

Siegfried Sassoon

Author : Max Egremont
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447234782
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Siegfried Sassoon written by Max Egremont and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Siegfried Sassoon has been recorded and interpreted in literature and film for over half a century. He is one of the great figures of the First World War, and Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer are still widely read, as are his poems, which did much to shape our present ideas about the Great War. Sassoon was a genuine hero, a brave young officer who also became the war's most famous opponent, risking imprisonment and even a death sentence by throwing his Military Cross into the Mersey. He was friend to Robert Graves, mentor to Wilfred Owen and much admired by Churchill. But Sassoon was more than the embodiment of a romantic ideal; he was in many senses the perfect product of a vanished age. And many questions about his character, unique experience and motivations have remained unanswered until now. Siegfried Sassoon’s life has been recorded and interpreted in literature and film for over half a century. But this poet, First World War hero, friend to Robert Graves and mentor to Wilfred Owen, was more than the embodiment of a romantic ideal. Passionately involved with the aristocratic aesthete Stephen Tennant, married abruptly to the beautiful Hester Gatty, estranged, isolated, and a late Catholic convert, his private story has never before been told in such depth. Egremont discovers a man born in a vanished age, unhappy with his homosexuality and the modernist revolution that appeared to threaten the survival of his work, and engaged in an enduring personal battle between idealism and the world in which he moved. Shortlisted for the 2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Autobiography

The Early Poetry of Robert Graves

Author : Frank L. Kersnowski
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292700814
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Early Poetry of Robert Graves written by Frank L. Kersnowski and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many men of his generation, poet Robert Graves was indelibly marked by his experience of trench warfare in World War I. The horrific battles in which he fought and his guilt over surviving when so many perished left Graves shell-shocked and disoriented, desperately seeking a way to bridge the rupture between his conventional upbringing and the uncertainties of postwar British society. In this study of Graves's early poetry, Frank Kersnowski explores how his war neurosis opened a door into the unconscious for Graves and led him to reject the essential components of the Western idea of reality—reason and predictability. In particular, Kersnowski traces the emergence in Graves's early poems of a figure he later called "The White Goddess," a being at once terrifying and glorious, who sustains life and inspires poetry. Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven by the purpose of celebrating and explaining this deity and her matriarchy.

Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English

Author : Brian McHale
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748627103
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English written by Brian McHale and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth century.This companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary -historical analysis. Far from the usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures, this reference work for the new century cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary 'hot spots': Freud's Vienna and Conrad's Congo in 1899, Chicago and London in 1912, the Somme in July 1916, Dublin, London and Harlem in 1922, and so on, down to Bradford and Berlin in 1989 (the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the new digital media), Stockholm in 1993 (Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize) and September 11, 2001.