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Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), soldier, poet, and witness to a century of war, is an icon of the twentieth century; Jean Moorcroft Wilson is the leading authority on him. In this two-volume biography, she offers her definitive analysis of his life and works. The first critically acclaimed volume, covering Sassoon's life up until the end of the Great War, offers rich material on his poetry, his patriotism, and his anti-war stance. In volume two, Moorcroft Wilson reveals the truth of Sassoon's life after the armistice, when most people thought he was dead; the story includes a series of love affairs with such larger-than-life characters as Queen Victoria's great-grandson, Prince Phillip of Hesse, the flamboyant Ivor Novello, and the exotic and bejeweled Stephen Tennant. But this was also the period of Sassoon's close friendships with the greatest literary figures of the age, including Hardy, Beerbohm, E.M. Forster, and T.E. Lawrence. Written with the cooperation of Siegfried Sassoon's family and friends, and with access to a mass of private and unpublished material, poems, diaries, letters, and photographs, this meticulously researched biography will be the standard work on Sassoon's life and legacy.

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List of Plates xi
Preface xiii
Introduction 11. 'Pilgrimages to Poets, Post-Armistice Parties and Other Diversions' (November-December 1918) 9
2. 'A Simpleton's Progress' (January- March 1919) 27
3. 'Making the Book Page Memorable' (April-June 1919) 45
4. 'Rootleses Re-Beginnings' (June-December 1919) 61
5. 'Midnight on Broadway' (January-March 1920) 75
6. Chicago and Beyond (March-August 1920) 89
7. Tufton Street Blues (August 1920- November 1925) 101
8. Satirical Poems and Other Literary Matters 117
9. Ways of Escape 133
10. 'Love is the Test' (1921-1925) 143
11. 'My Glorious Angel' (1925-1927) 159
12. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man: 'The Testament of My Youth' 175
13. 'The Old Earl and Little Lord Faunteleroy'(1927-1928) 195
14. 'The Heart's Paradise' (November 1928-January 1931) 215
15. Memoirs of Infantry Officer and Goodbye to Graves 233
16. The Turn of the Screw (February 1931-May 1933) 243
17. 'O, Hester, You Must Redeem My Life' (June-December 1933) 263
18. Paradise Regained and Lost (1934-1938) 283
19. The Old Century and the New War 301
20. War Within and Without (September 1939-October 1942) 311
21. The Weald of Youth, a Remembered Word' 327
22. 'A Middle Life in Armageddon' (October 1942-May 1945) 333
23. The Wilderness Years (1945-1950) 343
24. An Asking (1950-1956) 365
25. Doms and Dames (1957-1960) 387
26. 'It Has Been a Long Journey' (1961-1967) 405
Appendix: Identification of Pseudonyms from the Sherston Trilogy
Acknowledgments
Select Bibliography
Index

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