Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

“The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still, / And I remember things I’d best forget,” wrote Siegfried Sassoon in 1916. A year later, in one of the most famous poems from the ...

The work of war poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke ... wrote possibly one of the most famous pieces of war poetry, In Flanders Fields, while observing the scenes outside a ...

In 1917 one of them, the poet Siegfried Sassoon went public with his doubts about the war. In the trenches his men had known Lieutenant Sassoon as Mad Jack for his astonishing fearlessness and he ...