death_date nationality pseudonyms birth_date period genre alma_mater death_place influenced influences imagesize image occupation caption birth_place module notableworks article_title birth_name
1 september 1967 british saul kain , pinchbeck lyre 8 september 1886 early 20th century poetry , fiction , biography clare college , cambridge heytesbury , wiltshire , england wilfred owein , edmund blunden , robert graves e. , edmund gosse , thomas hardy m. forster , henry vaughan , robert graves frameless siegfried . jpg sassoon by george charles beresford -lrb- 1915 -rrb- soldier , poet , diarist , memoirist , journalist siegfried beresford sassoon -lrb- may 1915 -rrb- by george charles matfield , kent , england yes -- 1919 rank = captain servicenumber = unit = sussex allegiance yeomanry royal welch fusiliers commands = battles = world war = i awards = military cross branch = service years = 1914 '' the complete memoirs of george sherston '' siegfried sassoon
 siegfried loraine sassoon
siegfried sassoon

siegfried loraine sassoon , -lrb- 8 september 1886 -- 1 september 1967 -rrb- was an english poet , writer , and soldier .
decorated for bravery on the western front , he became one of the leading poets of the first world war .
his poetry both described the horrors of the trenches , and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who , in sassoon 's view , were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war .
sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his `` soldier 's declaration '' of 1917 , culminating in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital ; this resulted in his forming a friendship with wilfred owen , who was greatly influenced by him .
sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work , notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography , collectively known as the `` sherston trilogy '' .
