Bloom's Major Poets - Poets of World War I (part 2) - Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon (84p) [Inua].pdf

Title: Poets of World War I: Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon (Bloom's Major Poets) (Part 2)
Author: Harold Bloom
Series: Bloom's Major Poets
Library Binding: 83 pages
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (L) (May 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0791073882
ISBN-13: 978-0791073889

Description:
Essays discuss the major themes of poetry during World War I written by Rupert Brooke and Siegried Sassoon.

Rupert Chawner Brooke (middle name sometimes given as "Chaucer"; 3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England"


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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, 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. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a mental hospital; this resulted in his forming a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy".