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The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

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  1. Prelude: The Troops

    1:43

  2. Dreamers

    1:04

  3. The Redeemer

    2:49

  4. Trench Duty

    1:19

  5. Wirers

    1:30

  6. Break Of Day

    3:59

  7. A Working Party

    3:28

  8. Stand-To: Good Friday Morning

    1:07

  9. 'In The Pink'

    1:32

  10. The Hero

    1:30

  11. Before The Battle

    1:06

  12. The Road

    1:36

  13. Two Hundred Years After

    1:16

  14. The Dream

    2:37

  15. At Carnoy

    1:02

  16. Battalion Relief

    2:04

  17. The Dug-Out

    0:55

  18. The Rear-Guard

    2:11

  19. I Stood With The Dead

    1:20

  20. Suicide In Trenches

    1:05

  21. Attack

    1:24

  22. Counter-Attack

    2:53

  23. The Effect

    1:49

  24. Remorse

    1:38

  25. In An Underground Dressing-Station

    1:08

  26. Died Of Wounds

    1:10

  27. 'They'

    1:11

  28. Base Details

    0:59

  29. Lamentations

    1:10

  30. The General

    0:54

  31. How To Die

    1:14

  32. Editorial Impressions

    1:24

  33. Fight To A Finish

    1:14

  34. Atrocities

    1:15

  35. The Fathers

    1:09

  36. 'Blighters'

    0:54

  37. Glory Of Women

    1:11

  38. Their Frailty

    1:06

  39. Does It Matter?

    1:10

  40. Survivors

    1:10

  41. Joy-Bells

    1:13

  42. Arms And The Man

    1:15

  43. When I'm Among A Blaze Of Lights

    1:08

  44. The Kiss

    1:03

  45. The Tombstone-Maker

    1:23

  46. The One-Legged Man

    1:14

  47. Return Of The Heroes

    1:18

  48. Twelve Months After

    1:35

  49. To Any Dead Officer

    3:07

  50. Sick Leave

    1:18

  51. Banishment

    1:12

  52. Autumn

    0:53

  53. Repression Of War Experience

    2:28

  54. Together

    1:16

  55. The Hawthorn Tree

    0:58

  56. Concert Party

    2:00

  57. Night On The Convoy

    1:40

  58. A Letter Home

    3:10

  59. Reconciliation

    0:50

  60. Memorial Tablet (Great War)

    1:01

  61. The Death-Bed

    2:44

  62. Aftermath

    2:02

  63. Song-Books Of The War

    1:37

  64. Everyone Sang

    1:05

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Rain, mud and broken sleep shape the soldiers' lives in Siegfried Sassoon's collection of First World War verse. Published in 1920, it brings together sixty-four poems, including twelve appearing for the first time. The opening pieces follow men on watch, carrying supplies and repairing wire, while their thoughts return to warm rooms, familiar work and English countryside. In one poem, a labouring soldier becomes an image of Christ bearing a burden.

Sassoon also turns his attention to the people who explain, manage or applaud the fighting. A cheerful general, a confident visitor to the trenches and fathers chatting at a club become subjects of bitter irony. The movement between close observation and satirical voices gives the collection its force. Readers interested in war poetry can examine how ordinary comforts, exhausting duties and public assurances sit beside one another, revealing the distance between lived experience and comfortable talk.

About the author

Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) was an English poet and prose writer and one of the leading literary voices of the First World War. Awarded the Military Cross for bravery, he stunned the public in 1917 by openly denouncing the conflict. His Sherston memoirs remain classics of the period.

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Reading time
About 45 minutes
Pages
44
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
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Audio read by
asterix, Mark Hissong, Beth Thomas (1974-2020) and others