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Siegfried Sassoon

The Journey from the Trenches : a Biography (1918-1967)

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

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Siegfried Sassoon

The Journey from the Trenches : a Biography (1918-1967)

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

The World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon is one of the twentieth century's greatest icons and Jean Moorcroft Wilson is the leading authority on him. In Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches, the second volume of her best-selling, authorized biography, Wilson completes her definitive analysis of his life and works, exploring Sassoon's experiences after the Great War. For many people, Sassoon exists primarily as a First World War poet and bold fighter, who earned the nickname 'Mad Jack' in the trenches and risked Court Martial, possibly the firing squad, with his public protest against the War. Much less is known about his life after the Armistice. Wilson uncovers a series of love affairs with such larger-than-life characters as Queen Victoria's great-grandson, Prince Phillip of Hess, the flamboyant Ivor Novello and the exotic and bejeweled Hon. Stephen Tennant. This period also sees Sassoon establishing close friendships with some of the greatest literary figures of the age, Hardy, Beerbohm, E. M. Forster and T. E.Lawrence among them. Sassoon himself said that most people thought he had died in 1919. But Wilson shows that his poetry is, if anything, more powerful in the second half of his life. Based on a decade of meticulous research and interviews with many who knew Sassoon well, much of the material is published here for the first time. Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches completes a fascinating story that is beautifully told.

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Psychology Press

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0415967139

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9780415967136

Siegfried Sassoon

The Making of a War Poet, A biography (1886-1918)

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

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Siegfried Sassoon

The Making of a War Poet, A biography (1886-1918)

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

This book encompasses the complete life and works of Siegfried Sassoon, from his patriotic youth that led him to the frontline, to the formation of his anti-war convictions, great literary friendships and flamboyant love affairs.

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Routledge

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1000143759

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9781000143751

Robert Graves

From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929)

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

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Robert Graves

From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929)

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That casts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War poetry is incomplete. The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he had published during and just after the First World War. Until his son, William Graves, reprinted almost all the Poems About War in 1988, Graves's status as a 'war poet' seems to have depended mainly on his prose memoir (and bestseller), Good-bye to All That. None of the previous biographies written on Graves, however excellent, attempt to deal with this paradox in any depth. Robert Graves the war poet and the suppressed poems themselves have been largely neglected – until now. Jean Moorcroft Wilson, celebrated biographer of poets Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas, relates Graves's fascinating life during this period, his experiences in the war, his being left for dead at the Battle of the Somme, his leap from a third-storey window after his lover Laura Riding's even more dramatic jump from the fourth storey, his move to Spain and his final 'goodbye' to 'all that'. In this deeply-researched new book, containing startling material never before brought to light, Dr Moorcroft Wilson traces not only Graves's compelling life, but also the development of his poetry during the First World War, his thinking about the conflict and his shifting attitude towards it.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472929160

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9781472929167

Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras

A Biography

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

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Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras

A Biography

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

This is the extraordinary life of a poetic genius. Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. A war poet is not one who chooses to commemorate or celebrate a war, but one who reacts against having a war thrust upon him. His great friend Robert Frost wrote 'his poetry is so very brave, so unconsciously brave.' Apart from a most illuminating understanding of his poetry, Dr Wilson shows how Thomas' life alone makes for absorbing reading: his early marriage, his dependence on laudanum, his friendships with Joseph Conrad, Edward Garnett, Rupert Brooke and Hilaire Belloc among others. The novelist Eleanor Farjeon entered into a curious menage a trois with him and his wife. He died in France in 1917, on the first day of the Battle of Arras. This is the stuff of which myths are made and posterity has been quick to oblige. But this has tended to obscure his true worth as a writer, as Dr Wilson argues. Edward Thomas's poems were not published until some months after his death, but they have never since been out of print. Described by Ted Hughes as 'the father of us all', Thomas's distinctively modern sensibility is probably the one most in tune with our twenty-first century outlook. He occupies a crucial place in the development of twentieth century poetry.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408187140

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9781408187142

Siegfried Sassoon

The Journey from the Trenches : a Biography (1918-1967)

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

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The Journey from the Trenches : a Biography (1918-1967)

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Robert Graves

From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929)

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

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From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929)

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1472929152

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Witnessing Australian Stories

History, Testimony, and Memory in Contemporary Culture

By: Kelly Jean Butler

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Witnessing Australian Stories

History, Testimony, and Memory in Contemporary Culture

By: Kelly Jean Butler

This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, including literature, history, films, and television. Those who have responded are both ordinary and prominent Australians—politicians, writers, and scholars. All have sought to come to terms with Australia's history by responding empathetically to stories of its marginalized citizens.Drawing upon international scholarship on collective memory, public history, testimony, and witnessing, this book represents a cultural history of contemporary Australia. It examines the forms of witnessing that dominated Australian public culture at the turn of the millennium. Since the late 1980s, witnessing has developed in Australia in response to the increasingly audible voices of indigenous peoples, migrants, and more recently, asylum seekers. As these voices became public, they posed a challenge not only to scholars and politicians, but also, most importantly, to ordinary citizens.When former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered his historic apology to Australia's indigenous peoples in February 2008, he performed an act of collective witnessing that affirmed the testimony and experiences of Aboriginal Australians. The phenomenon of witnessing became crucial, not only to the recognition and reparation of past injustices, but to efforts to create a more cosmopolitan Australia in the present. This is a vital addition to Transaction's critically acclaimed Memory and Narrative series.

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303

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Routledge

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1351471481

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Chasing Lost Time

The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator

By: Jean Findlay

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Chasing Lost Time

The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator

By: Jean Findlay

Provides a biography of Marcel Proust translator C.K. Scott Moncrieff, a man revealed to be a homosexual Catholic, a secretly lonely partygoer, a covert spy in Mussolini's Italy, and a brave war hero.

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Macmillan

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0374119279

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9780374119270

Isaac Rosenberg

The Making of a Great War Poet: A New Life

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

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Isaac Rosenberg

The Making of a Great War Poet: A New Life

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Isaac Rosenberg was among the greatest poets of the First World War. The British-born son of impoversihed Russian Jews, Rosenberg fought as a private in the trenches of the Great Was and died on the Western Front in 1918 as the age of 27. In Isaac Rosenberg, Wilson examines the influence of Rosenberg's class and heritage on his writings, as well as the development of his poetic technique. She traces his maturation from his childhood in Bristol and the Jewish East End of London to art school, his travels to South Africa, and finally his harrowing service as a private in the British Army. Rosenberg was also a gifted painter and this beautifully illustrated volume oncludes some hitherto inseen self-portraits, along with photogrpahs of Rosenberg and his family. Wilson's biogrpahy brings together all known Rosenberg material with a mass of important new discoveries. Isaac Rosenberg is a long-overdue consideration of a remarkable war poet.

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481

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Northwestern University Press

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0810126044

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9780810126046

Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras

A Biography

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

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Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras

A Biography

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

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Isaac Rosenberg

The Making of a Great War Poet: A New Life

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

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The Making of a Great War Poet: A New Life

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Siegfried Sassoon War Poet

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

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Siegfried Sassoon War Poet

By: Jean Moorcroft Wilson

The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's finest poets, Siegfried Sassoon - The Making of a War Poet is based on 7 years of detailed research by Jean Moorcroft Wilson. Published to great critical acclaim, this first volume covers Sassoon's life up until the end of the First World War. Wilson has unearthed many private and unpublished letters and papers, which have enabled her to embark on the journey towards self-knowledge that Sassoon himself felt that he could never take.

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Gerald Duckworth

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0715633392

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9780715633397

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