Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (September 8, 1886 – September 1, 1967) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I, but later won acclaim for his prose work.

Sassoon's literary output

Poetry

• The Daffodil Murderer (John Richmond: 1913)
• The Old Huntsman (Heinemann: 1917)
• Counter-Attack (Heinemann: 1918)
• Picture-Show (Heinemann: 1919)
• War Poems (Heinemann: 1919)
• Recreations (privately printed: 1923)
• Lingual Exercises for Advanced Vocabularians (privately printed: 1925)
• Selected Poems (Heinemann: 1925)
• Satirical Poems (Heinemann: 1926)
• The Heart's Journey (Heinemann: 1928)
• Poems by Pinchbeck Lyre (Duckworth: 1931)
• The Road to Ruin (Faber and Faber: 1933)
• Vigils (Heinemann: 1935)
• Rhymed Ruminations (Faber and Faber: 1940)
• Poems Newly Selected (Faber and Faber: 1940)
• Collected Poems (Faber and Faber: 1947)
• Common Chords (privately printed: 1950/1951)
• Emblems of Experience (privately printed: 1951)
• The Tasking (privately printed: 1954)
• Sequences (Faber and Faber: 1956)
• Lenten Illuminations (privately printed: 1958)
• The Path to Peace (Stanbrook Abbey Press: 1960)
• Collected Poems 1908-1956 (Faber and Faber: 1961)
• The War Poems ed. Rupert Hart-Davis (Faber and Faber: 1983)

Prose

• Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (Faber & Gwyer: 1928)
• Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Faber and Faber: 1930)
• Sherston's Progress (Faber and Faber: 1936)
• Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (Faber and Faber: 1937)
• The Old Century (Faber and Faber: 1938)
• On Poetry (University of Bristol Press: 1939)
• The Weald of Youth (Faber and Faber: 1942)
• Siegfried's Journey (Faber and Faber: 1945)
• Meredith (Constable: 1948)