On the calm verge
Of some annunciation that should bring
With flocks of silver angels, ultimate Spring
Whence all that life had longed for might emerge.
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Terence Davies’ last film ‘Benediction’ (2022) about Siegfried Sassoon is on BBC iPlayer. Utterly beautiful. #SiegfriedSassoon #TerenceDavies
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The #HOMEmcr #TerenceDavies season continues with his last feature film the 2021 biographical romantic war drama #Benediction that stars #JackLowden and #PeterCapaldi (as war poet #SiegfriedSassoon), alongside #SimonRussellBeale, #JeremyIrvine, #KatePhillips, #GemmaJones and #BenDaniels
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My fav. WWI poet #WilfredOwen was incapacitated by a mortar explosion (today, he'd be diagnosed with PTSD). While recovering in hospital in 1917 he befriended #SiegfriedSassoon; unlike Sassoon, once declared fit he returned to the front. He died days before the end.
#RemembranceDay🌺 #LestWeForget
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On Passing the New Menin Gate Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns? Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,— Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones? Crudely renewed, the Salient holds its own. Paid are its dim defenders by this pomp; Paid, with a pile of peace-complacent stone, The armies who endured that sullen swamp. Here was the world's worst wound. And here with pride 'Their name liveth for ever,' the Gateway claims. Was ever an immolation so belied As these intolerably nameless names? Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime. ~ Siegfried Sassoon, 1927
"On Passing the New Menin Gate" by Siegfried Sassoon, 1927
#RemembranceDay #ArmisticeDay #siegfriedsassoon #worldwaripoetry #wwipoetry
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Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they stand, Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows. Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives. Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin They think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives. I see them in foul dug-outs, gnawed by rats, And in the ruined trenches, lashed with rain, Dreaming of things they did with balls and bats, And mocked by hopeless longing to regain Bank-holidays, and picture shows, and spats, And going to the office in the train.
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English writer Beverley Nichols, best known for his popular gardening trilogy “Down the Garden Path” and his friendships with celebrity homosexuals #NoelCoward and #SiegfriedSassoon, was BOTD in 1899. #beverleynichols #bornonthisday #supergays
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English solider, poet and memoirist Siegfried Sassoon, best known for his searing poetic condemnations of World War One, was BOTD in 1886. After unhappy affairs with #StephenTennant and #IvorNovello, he married a woman, which didn’t end well. #siegfriedsassoon #sadgays #bornonthisday #warpoetry
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"In me the tiger sniffs the rose."
Poems: allpoetry.com/Siegfried-Sa...
✒️ #SiegfriedSassoon, English soldier, poet, and author, was #BOTD 8 September 1886. #Poetrt #Literature
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"Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/siegfr...
✒ #SiegfriedSassoon, English soldier, poet, and author, #DOTD 1 September 1967. #Poetry #Literature
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✒️ #OTD in the #History of #Poetry 18 Aug 1917, #WilfredOwen introduced himself to renowned war poet #SiegfriedSassoon at Edinburgh’s Craiglockhart War Hospital for shell-shocked soldiers. Developing a bond of mutual admiration, they helped one another improve their poetic craft.
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🔴 2024 The Voyage Home by Pat Barker published
#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #August15 #WilfredOwen #SiegfriedSassoon #PatBarker
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Good morning #booksky! 🌞
🔴 1917 Poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon first met at Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh, go on to have an profound influence on each other's work (actual date 15-19 Aug)
#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #August15 #WilfredOwen #SiegfriedSassoon #PatBarker
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Everyone suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards and dark-green fields; on - on - and out of sight. Everyone's voice was suddenly lifted; And beauty came like the setting sun: My heart was shaken with tears; and horror Drifted away ... O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.
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Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon
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Stream the episode now 🎧👉 Out on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you like to listen.
#worldpoetryday #siegfriedsassoon #warpoetry #wwihistory #poetrycommunity
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A powerful #WW1poetry lesson plan for top juniors or #KS3 students. Creates a performance that would make a great assembly... #VEDay #WW1 #EduSky #education #history #SiegfriedSassoon
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In the summer I spent a day by Siegfried Sassoon sketching and painting Mells churchyard. #pagesfrommysketchbook #SiegfriedSassoon #painting #sketching #WW1 #warpoet #poet #art #Mells #Somerset
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I said to downcast eyes—
Look up; accept surprise
Which waits, all welcomings.
I said to shuttered ears—
Heed how earth music nears
On wonder's wind-swept strings.
#SiegfriedSassoon (1968) #poem #poetry
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