Siegfried Sassoon

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.

Jean Moorcroft Wilson is Lecturer in English at London University. She has published widely, including biographies of Virginia Woolf, Isaac Rosenberg, Charles Hamilton Sorley and William Watson. She is currently writing the second volume of the Sassoon biography.

List of Plates, Introduction, 1. Heredities, 2. Childhood in the Garden, 1886-1895, 3. Lutes and Nightingales, 1895-1900, 4. 'Harum-Scarum Schoolboy', 1900-1904, 5. The Chancellor's Muddle, 1904-1907, 6. Sporting Squire and Gentleman Writer, 1907-1914, 7. Big London Where Poets Live, May-July 1914, 8. The Happy Warrior, August 1914-November 1915, 9. 'Goodbye to Galahad', November 1915-March 1916, 10. 'At the Edge of the World', March-July 1916, 11. 'My Killed Friends are With Me', August 1916-January 1917, 12. The Wounded Hero, February-April 1917, 13. 'Love Drove Me to Rebel', April-July 1917, 14. Strange Meeting, July-November 1917, 15. 'Love Drives Me Back', November 1917-May 1918, 16. The Good Soldier, May-July 1918, 17. 'A Loathsome Ending*, July-November 1918, Afterword, Family Trees, Acknowledgements, Endnotes, A Select Bibliography, Index