The work of war poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Isaac Rosenberg and Robert Nichols, among others, catches a truth we can remember and absorb in a consoling and ...

Death Comes for the War Poets’ looks at the life and legacy of poet Siegfried Sassoon — yet its true focus lies in the ...

Left: Rupert Brooke. Right: Siegfried Sassoon. Rupert Brooke was one of the first British war poets. He felt it was important to do your duty for your country. His famous poem The Soldier said ...

The patriotic enthusiasm that led many to enlist (e.g. Rupert Brooke) -The realization that the war rhetoric was a lie. The anger came (main theme of Siegfried Sassoon’s poetry) -The poetry ...

He was the sponsor of the Georgian school of poets and a friend to many poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. In his career as a civil servant he worked as Private Secretary to a ...

In English literature the “War poets” wrote their works either to idealise the war, like Rupert Brooke, or while they were fighting in the trenches such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.

“The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still, / And I remember things I’d best forget,” wrote Siegfried Sassoon ... poet in the spotlight is Rupert Brooke, who made a name for himself ...