Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) adalah seorang penyair perang, penulis dan prajurit Inggris. Dihargai atas keberaniannya pada Front Barat, ia menjadi salah satu penyair utama pada Perang Dunia Pertama.

Siegfried Sassoon CBE MC
Sassoon difoto pada 1915 oleh George Charles Beresford
Lahir	Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (1886-09-08)8 September 1886 Matfield, Kent, Inggris
Meninggal	1 September 1967(1967-09-01) (umur 80) Heytesbury, Wiltshire, Inggris
Nama pena	Saul Kain Pinchbeck Lyre
Pekerjaan	Prajurit penyair perang penulis
Pendidikan	Clare College, Cambridge Marlborough College
Genre	Puisi fiksi biografi
Karya terkenal	The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston
Pasangan	Hester Gatty ​ (m. invalid year)​
Anak	George
Kerabat	Keluarga Sassoon
Karier militer
Pengabdian	Britania Raya
Dinas/cabang	Angkatan Darat Britania Raya
Lama dinas	1914–1919
Pangkat	Kapten
Kesatuan	Sussex Yeomanry Royal Welch Fusiliers
Perang/pertempuran	Perang Dunia Pertama
Penghargaan	Military Cross

Referensi

• Felicitas Corrigan, Siegfried Sassoon: Poet's Pilgrimage (1973). ISBN 0-575-01721-X (A collection of Sassoon's diary-entries and correspondence marking his gradual spiritual development towards Roman Catholicism.)
• Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet (1998). ISBN 0-7156-2822-4
• Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches: a biography (1918–1967) (London: Routledge, 2003). ISBN 0-7156-2971-9
• John Stuart Roberts, Siegfried Sassoon (1999). ISBN 1-86066-151-3
• Max Egremont, Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography (2005). ISBN 0-330-37526-1
• Siegfried's Journal: the journal of the Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship.
• Sassoon on the War poets from Vanity Fair magazine (1920

Bacaan tambahan

• Miller, Neil (1995). Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. New York: Vintage Books. hlm. 92–96. ISBN 0679749888. 
• Roy Pinaki. "Comrades-in-Arms: A Very Brief Study of Sassoon and Owen as Twentieth-Century English War Poets". Twentieth-century British Literature: Reconstructing Literary Sensibility. Ed. Nawale, A., Z. Mitra, and A. John. New Delhi: Gnosis, 2013 (ISBN 978-93-81030-47-9). pp. 61–78.
• Siegfried Sassoon collection of papers, 1905–1975, bulk (1915–1951) (669 items) are held at the New York Public Library.
• Siegfried Sassoon papers, 1894–1966 (3 linear ft. (ca.630 items in 4 boxes & 13 slipcases)) are held at Columbia University Libraries.
• Siegfried Sassoon papers, 1908–1966 (109 items) are held in the Rutgers University Libraries.

Pranala luar

• Karya Siegfried Sassoon di Project Gutenberg
• Karya Siegfried Sassoon di Faded Page (Canada)
• Karya oleh/tentang Siegfried Sassoon di Internet Archive (pencarian dioptimalkan untuk situs non-Beta)
• Karya Siegfried Sassoon di LibriVox (buku suara domain umum)
• Profile at Poetry Foundation
• 1920 Vanity Fair magazine article by Sassoon
• Profile at Poetry Archive. Biography and poems written and audio
• The Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship
• Siegfried Sassoon profile and poems at Poets.org
• BBC: In our time. (Audio discussion 45 mins) with bibliography and links. Updated 18-Mar-15
• BBC interview 1 January 1967 (Audio, 7 mins) Dead link Updated 18-Mar-15
• WGBH Forum Network lecture given by Sassoon biographer Max Egremont (Audio and video, 1 hour)
• Siegfried Sassoon collection of papers, circa 1905–1975, bulk (1915–1951) (669 items), New York Public Library.
• "Materi arsip tentang Siegfried Sassoon". UK National Archives. 
• Papers of Siegfried Sassoon, Cambridge University Library
• Sassoon in the Great War Archive, Oxford University/Jisc.
• BBC Audio slideshow. Sassoon's papers at Cambridge University Library.
• Elizabeth Whitcomb Houghton Collection, Sassoon archive
• Sassoon Journals digitised in Cambridge Digital Library
• Archival material at
• Finding aid to Siegfried Sassoon papers at Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
• Siegfried Sassoon Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.