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...C. M. Armitage Siegfried Sassoon: A Critical Study . By Thorpe Michael . Leiden : Universitaire Pers , and New York : Oxford University Press , 1967 . Pp. xii , 318 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 140 The South Atlantic Quarterly are drawn from...

...Merle M. Bevington Meredith . By Sassoon Siegfried . New York : The Viking Press , 1948 . Pp. viii , 269 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 306 The South Atlantic Quarterly Meredith. By Siegfried Sassoon. New York: The Viking Press, 1948. Pp. viii, 269...

... the scholar looking for solid facts will find as many here as he may desire. DUKE UNIVERSITY GERALD MONSMAN Siegfried Sassoon: A Critical Study. By Michael Thorpe. Leiden: Universitaire Pers, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. xii, 318. $7.50. Compared to his near-contemporaries Pound and Eliot...

... fragmentary translations of Gramsci were not from the original Italian but from French, of which various selections had begun to appear as early as 1953 (Mouffe and Sassoon 1977 ). Several of these translations appeared in the literary journal Ārash between February 1968 and the winter of 1971...

... was in the home, socially conventional, and very much in love. DUKE UNIVERSITY RICHARD L. WATSON, JR. World War I and the American Novel. By Stanley Cooperman. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1967. Pp. xii, 273. $6.50. I was a booby-trapped idealist. Siegfried Sassoon s description of himself when pitched...

...; but it shows more of eccentricity than of greatness. Mr. Sassoon is no happier in his criticism than in biography. He gives elaborate synopses of the novels and stories, in which he cannot manage the sequence of tenses. Feeling that in writing about a poet he must comment upon meter, he quotes two lines...

... as the most important figures of the period Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Herbert Read, and (now) Jones; but he devotes an early chapter to the unfortunate Rupert Brooke, who seems destined to remain the glaring example of childlike idealism steadfastly undaunted...

... Sassoon s description of himself when pitched into World War I could be well applied to most of the protagonists in the novels considered in Mr. Cooperman s book. And the pattern which appears in them is all too familiar in the 1960 s: naive and often enthusiastic acceptance of a crusade against...

... Sassoon s explanation is significant: These intellectuals are considered traditional from . . . the point of view of the dominant, capitalistic mode of production. They are still linked to a world which is pre-capitalist. In this ter­ rain they weld together a sub-bloc which has its own particular...

... York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. viii, 284. $15.95. With The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell recruited for future attention a lot of us who live in history but occasionally peek over the wall at literature. That book sent me reading all the novels of Siegfried Sassoon, which somehow...

... Is Kind, modern poetry has fostered that particular ironic perception that cuts through the thin veneer of chauvinism to the ugliness and brutality and waste of war beneath. The First World War, in the work of Sassoon, Owen, Seeger, and others, matured this viewpoint; and there is a direct line...

... on specific big Jews: Blum, Laski, Sassoon, Baruch, Frankfurter, the Rothschilds, Freud, Lehman, and Morgenthau (the last two presented as the real power in America) and such puppets of the Jews as Roosevelt, Churchill, and de Gaulle. Pound is still aware that there are Gentiles as guilty as Jews Why Pick...

... room for visiting gentry, part ofthe same class prejudice Graves had found so intolerable in the army.73 He eventually left England altogether to live first in Egypt, then in Majorca. Graves s fellow infantry officer Siegfried Sassoon also used cricket to dramatic effect in his trilogy of novels about...

... and Siegfried Sassoon, who have the evidence of the twentieth century before them, the cause is futile, the ugliness is all. But Hardy saw in the old wars the truth that became generally apparent only after the new ones. In the poem The Sick Battle-God, he faintly anticipates the idea of The Dy­ nasts...

... is doubtful: can we describe as recruits men who had no other clear political al­ legiance, such as Sir Stafford Cripps, Hugh Dalton, Lord Elton, Mary Agnes Hamilton, John Strachey, G. R. Strauss? Or, in a dif­ ferent category, Siegfried Sassoon, William Temple, H. G. Wells? There are some unfortunate...

... Frederick Allen. Boston: The Four Seas Co., 68 pp. Picture-Show. By Siegfried Sassoon. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 36 pp. The bulk of Mr. Curran s poems deal with nature, patriotic subjects, and what his publishers call the future genera­ tions themes. The bulk is not very impressive, nor are the themes...

... with Howards End (1910), was pleased and impressed by the encounter with an intellectual man of action. He wrote this to Lawrence, received no reply, and soon afterwards left for a year in India as private secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas Senior. Three years later, Siegfried Sassoon asked Forster to read...

..., if less sparkling and grand. Other writers of contemporary verse who break through the glassy mist of merely smooth or imitative poeticizing are Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Mark Van Doren, E. E. Cummings, Dylan Thomas, Robert Lowell, John Gould Fletcher, Horace Greg­ ory, Josephine Miles...

... Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration [London: Viking, 1991]; The Eye in the Door [London: Viking, 1993]; and The Ghost Road [Harmondsworth: Viking, 1995 based on the experiences of British soldiers, including antiwar poet Siegfried Sassoon, at Craig- lockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh...