Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Siegfried Sassoon

The Making of a War Poet

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The definitive single-volume biography of Siegfried Sassoon, from the world's leading scholar of the great war poet

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duckworth Books
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 60mm
• Gewicht: 1204g
• ISBN-13: 9780715633892
• ISBN-10: 0715633899
• Artikelnr.: 38580271

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates
Preface
Introduction
1. 'Pilgrimages to Poets
Post-Armistice Parties and Other Diversions' (November-December 1918)
2. 'A Simpleton's Progress' (January~March 1919)
3. 'Making the Book Page Memorable' (April-June 1919)
4. 'Rootless Re-Beginnings' (June-December 1919)
5. 'Midnight on Broadway' (January-March 1920)
6. Chicago and Beyond (March-August 1920)
7. Tufton Street Blues (August 1920-November 1925)
8. Satirical Poems and Other Literary Matters
9. Ways of Escape
10. 'Love is the Test' (1921-1925)
11. 'My Glorious Angel' (1925-1927)
12. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man: 'The Testament of My Youth'
13. 'The Old Earl and Little Lord Fauntleroy' (1927-1928)
14. 'The Heart's Paradise' (November 1928-January 1931)
15. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Goodbye to Graves
16. The Turn of the Screw (February 1931-May 1933)
17. 'O
Hester
You Must Redeem My Life' (June-December 1933)
18. Paradise Regained and Lost (1934-1938)
19. The Old Century and the New War
20. War Within and Without (September 1939~0ctober 1942)
21. 'The Weald of Youth
a Remernbered Word'
22. 'A Middle Life in Armageddon' (October 1942-May 1945)
23. The Wilderness Years (1945-1950)
24. An Asking (1950-1956)
25. Doms and Dames (1957-1960)
26. 'It Has Been a Long Journey' (1961-1967)
Endnotes
Appendix: Identification of Pseudonyms from the Sherston Trilogy
Acknowledgements
Select Bibliography
Index