Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon is born 8 September 1886 and died the 1 September 1967 in a ages of 80 by stomach cancer. Siegfried Sassoon was an English poet, novelist, biographer and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front. He became one of the leading poets of the First World War.

He was born and raised in Matfield in England. His father Alfred Ezra Sassoon was Jewish and his mother Theresa Sassoon was an Anglo-Catholic. Sassoon was the second son of three sons, the others was called Michael and Hamo.

During Sassoons youth his biggest interest was fox-hunting, because he did not finish his studies and in this period he wrote some poetry, but did not get much intention. In 1914 he got into the army after the outbreak to World War 1. But a broken arm prevented him to get in battle. He came first in active battle in 1915. 1 November same year his younger brother Hamo was killed.

Sassoon was homosexual but got married to Hester Gatty and got his only son George. The marriage ended after the Word War 2.

And apparently he got a “relationship to the author and soldier Wilfred Owen, that we had read the famous poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”. Siegfried Sassoon met Wilfred Owen at the military school, and in 1917 they were both in a hospital in Edinburgh for shell chock.

The genre he wrote was Poetry, Fiction, Biography. 

Written by Nanna Gjesing