Counter-Attack and Other Poems
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Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. He served in the trenches during the First World War, where he began to write the poems for which he is remembered. Despatched as ‘shell-shocked’ to hospital, he organised public protest against the war. His poetry initially met with little response, but his reputation grew steadily in the following decades.
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Counter-Attack and Other Poems - Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon
Counter-Attack and Other Poems
EAN 8596547228080
DigiCat, 2022
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
PRELUDE: THE TROOPS
COUNTER-ATTACK
THE REAR-GUARD
WIRERS
ATTACK
DREAMERS
HOW TO DIE
THE EFFECT
TWELVE MONTHS AFTER
THE FATHERS
BASE DETAILS
THE GENERAL
LAMENTATIONS
DOES IT MATTER?
FIGHT TO A FINISH
EDITORIAL IMPRESSIONS
SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES
GLORY OF WOMEN
THEIR FRAILTY
THE HAWTHORN TREE
THE INVESTITURE
TRENCH DUTY
BREAK OF DAY
TO ANY DEAD OFFICER
SICK LEAVE
BANISHMENT
SONG-BOOKS OF THE WAR
THRUSHES
AUTUMN
INVOCATION
REPRESSION OF WAR EXPERIENCE
THE TRIUMPH
SURVIVORS
JOY-BELLS
REMORSE
DEAD MUSICIANS
I
THE DREAM
I
IN BARRACKS
TOGETHER
INTRODUCTION
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Sassoon the Man
In appearance he is tall, big-boned, loosely built. He is clean-shaven, pale or with a flush; has a heavy jaw, wide mouth with the upper lip slightly protruding and the curve of it very pronounced like that of a shrivelled leaf (as I have noticed is common in many poets). His nose is aquiline, the nostrils being wide and heavily arched. This characteristic and the fullness, depth and heat of his dark eyes give him the air of a sullen falcon. He speaks slowly, enunciating the words as if they pained him, in a voice that has something of the troubled thickness apparent in the voices of those who emerge from a deep grief. As he speaks, his large hands, roughened by trench toil and by riding, wander aimlessly until some emotion grips him when the knuckles harden and he clutches at his knees or at the edge of the table. And all the while he will be breathing hard like a man who has swum a distance. When he reads his poems he chants and one would think that he communed with himself save that, at the pauses, he shoots a powerful glance at the listener. Between the poems he is still but moves his lips… He likes best to speak of hunting (he will shout of it!), of open air mornings when the gorse alone flames brighter than the sky, of country quiet, of his mother,
[Footnote: His father was a well-to-do country gentleman of
Anglo-Jewish stock, his