Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches : a Biography (1918-1967)Psychology Press, 2003 - 526 sayfa The World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon is one of the twentieth century's greatest icons and Jean Moorcroft Wilson is the leading authority on him. In Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches, the second volume of her best-selling, authorized biography, Wilson completes her definitive analysis of his life and works, exploring Sassoon's experiences after the Great War. For many people, Sassoon exists primarily as a First World War poet and bold fighter, who earned the nickname 'Mad Jack' in the trenches and risked Court Martial, possibly the firing squad, with his public protest against the War. Much less is known about his life after the Armistice. Wilson uncovers a series of love affairs with such larger-than-life characters as Queen Victoria's great-grandson, Prince Phillip of Hess, the flamboyant Ivor Novello and the exotic and bejeweled Hon. Stephen Tennant. This period also sees Sassoon establishing close friendships with some of the greatest literary figures of the age, Hardy, Beerbohm, E. M. Forster and T. E.Lawrence among them. Sassoon himself said that most people thought he had died in 1919. But Wilson shows that his poetry is, if anything, more powerful in the second half of his life. Based on a decade of meticulous research and interviews with many who knew Sassoon well, much of the material is published here for the first time. Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches completes a fascinating story that is beautifully told. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Diversions NovemberDecember 1918 | 9 |
A Simpletons Progress JanuaryMarch 1919 | 27 |
Making the Book Page Memorable AprilJune 1919 | 45 |
Rootless ReBeginnings JuneDecember 1919 | 61 |
Midnight on Broadway JanuaryMarch 1920 | 75 |
Chicago and Beyond MarchAugust 1920 | 89 |
Tufton Street Blues August 1920November 1925 | 101 |
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Goodbye to Graves | 233 |
The Turn of the Screw February 1931May 1933 | 243 |
O Hester You Must Redeem My Life JuneDecember 1933 | 263 |
Paradise Regained and Lost 19341938 | 283 |
The Old Century and the New War | 301 |
War Within and Without September 1939October 1942 | 311 |
The Weald of Youth a Remembered Word | 327 |
A Middle Life in Armageddon October 1942May 1945 | 333 |
Satirical Poems and Other Literary Matters | 117 |
Ways of Escape | 133 |
Love is the Test 19211925 | 143 |
My Glorious Angel 19251927 | 159 |
The Testament of My Youth | 175 |
The Old Earl and Little Lord Fauntleroy 19271928 | 195 |
The Hearts Paradise November 1928January 1931 | 215 |
The Wilderness Years 19451950 | 343 |
An Asking 19501956 | 365 |
Doms and Dames 19571960 | 387 |
It Has Been a Long Journey 19611967 | 405 |
Endnotes | 419 |
Identification of Pseudonyms from the Sherston Trilogy | 495 |
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