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SORROW AND DISMAY is an illustrated meditation on the horror and stupidity of the Great War. The selected poems are by Siegfried Sassoon, a British officer. Sassoon documented trench warfare in poems soaked with pain. He confronted the reader with details of tedium and battle on the Western Front. He wrote with sarcasm on the motives of people in power and the absurdity of romantic views of war. He was masterful in capturing the language of soldiers and wartime trauma. Sassoon is one of sixteen World War I poets commemorated in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. The images in this book complement Sassoon's poems and are in sympathy with his anti-war views. Includes 44 war poems, 24 illustrations (color and BW), Foreword, and Index of First Lines.

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There is something in Mr. Sassoon's poems of war so stark and bitter -- This awfulness, these grotesquely horrid details are not what we -- care to imagine. -- There is no room for great hope -- in this 'hell where youth and laughter go.' -The Guardian Siegfried Sassoon is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about World War I -- [he] wrote of the horror and brutality of trench warfare and contemptuously satirized generals, politicians, and churchmen. -- In 1957 he was awarded the Queen's Medal for Poetry. -Poetry Foundation

"""There is something in Mr. Sassoon's poems of war so stark and bitter -- This awfulness, these grotesquely horrid details are not what we -- care to imagine. -- There is no room for great hope -- in this 'hell where youth and laughter go.'"" -The Guardian ""Siegfried Sassoon is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about World War I -- [he] wrote of the horror and brutality of trench warfare and contemptuously satirized generals, politicians, and churchmen. -- In 1957 he was awarded the Queen's Medal for Poetry."" -Poetry Foundation"

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TCB Classics is an imprint of TCB Research and Indexing LLC. We publish books about human survival in the face of terrible odds. Our books are suitable for libraries and classrooms. Available in hardcover, paperback, and electronic formats. For more information, please visit: https: //www.tcbinfosci.com/classic-books-with-indexes/. Tanja Bekhuis, PhD, is a psychologist and information scientist. She specializes in the social sciences, social history, and human rights.

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