On the trail of the Poets of the Great War : Robert Graves & Siegfried Sassoon

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Label

On the trail of the Poets of the Great War : Robert Graves & Siegfried Sassoon

Title remainder

Robert Graves & Siegfried Sassoon

Statement of responsibility

helen McPhail and Philip Guest

Creator

• McPhail, Helen

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Graves, Robert, 1895-1985
• Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography
• Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967
• Soldiers -- Poetry
• Electronic books
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war

Genre

• Poetry
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

821.912

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

On the trail of the poets of the Great War

Target audience

adult