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They became great friends and when owen was subsequently killed in battle, sassoon took it upon himself to get owens poems published. War poems of siegfried sassoon dover books on literature. For businessexclusive pricing, quantity discounts and downloadable vat invoices. Avoiding the sentimentality and jingoism of many war poets, sassoon wrote of the horror and brutality of trench warfare and contemptuously satirized generals. War poems dover thrift editions series by siegfried sassoon. Buy a cheap copy of the war poems of siegfried sassoon book by siegfried sassoon. English criticism called siegfried sassoons poems an explosion of incandescent anger. Like many of his artistic contemporaries, sassoon embraced the great war for civilization with great fervor, and it was this passion that he brought to his earliest writings about the war.
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