22+ Siegfried Sassoon Famous Poems Gif. Siegfried sassoon is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about world war i, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Decorated for bravery on the western front, he became one of the leading poets of the first world war.
This collection of poems was first published in 1919 (london, w.
Siegfried sassoon his father was a wealthy jewish businessman and his mother an anglo catholic. 109573the war poems of siegfried sassoonsiegfried sassoon1919. The later collection the war poems of siegfried sassoon included 64 poems of the war, most written while sassoon was in hospital recovering from. John hildebidle has called sassoon the accidental hero. born into a wealthy jewish family in 1886, sassoon lived the pastoral life of a young squire: