Wilfred Owen Hears of Siegfried Sassoon, and The Calls for Himself; Duff...
The news of Siegfried Sassoon’s wounding spread very fast–to Wales in only a few days, to pretty much everyone in London soon after, and now to far-off Scarborough. Wilfred Owen writes to his mother of...
View ArticleOlaf Stapledon and the Obscure Ending; Thomas Hardy Whitewashes...
Today, a century back, featured one of the most notable poetic path-crossings of the entire war: three poets spent an entire day of leave together, three friendships were renewed, ice cream was...
View ArticleWilfred Owen’s Evil Report, and an Evening With Scott Moncrieff; A Ford...
Just a few days ago I argued that Ford Madox Hueffer was beginning to forge the central characters of the Tietjens tetralogy from his own nascent affair with Stella Bowen. And he is. But there will be...
View ArticleRowland Feilding Surveys the Damage; Richard Aldington Forswears Love; Thomas...
Today, a century back, Rowland Feilding wrote an extremely long letter to his wife, upon which we have been drawing for nearly two weeks for his accounts of the running battle. But now the Civil...
View ArticleRobert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, a Saucepan, and a Star
Robert Graves is a busy man: a training job, a baby on the way, and a belated recognition that the next book of new poems should really be two. My dear Siegfried Robbie, possibly in collusion with you,...
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Olaf Stapledon’s Eventful Campaign and Behind the Scenes Sketches; Thomas...
We have just one letter today, a century back, but hey–there’s an accompanying illustration! It’s from Olaf Stapledon, home in England now on leave after a long and trying summer with the Friends...
View ArticleVivian de Sola Pinto Reaches Tournai; Siegfried Sassoon Meets the Master
Vivian de Sola Pinto has entered Tournai, proceeding ahead of his brigade at the head of a flying column and finding little evidence of the retreating Germans with the except of air-dropped leaflets...
View ArticleVivian de Sola Pinto Presses On; Siegfried Sassoon with the Kindly Merlin at...
The B.E.F. marches on, still led (at least in one sliver of Belgium) by Siegfried Sassoon‘s erstwhile second-in-command Vivian de Sola Pinto. Until, this morning, he was overrun: …the rest of the...
View ArticleSiegfried Sassoon on Oxford, Garsington, Max Gate, and a Trio of Poets; Duff...
After a visit to Oxford, where his new friend (and possible love interest) Frank Prewett was studying, Siegfried Sassoon arrived at Garsington, the grand home of Ottoline Morrell, who has continued to...
View ArticleThe Great Calm
At 5 A.M., the representatives of Germany signed the Armistice that had been under negotiation for four days. At 11:00, it took effect, and the war ended, almost exactly a week after Wilfred Owen was...
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