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Charles Scott Moncrieff, Lover–and Wilfred Owen, Beloved; Siegfried Sassoon...
Charles Scott Moncrieff, 1913 Wilfred Owen headed back to Ripon today, a century back, something of a new man. There are plans to publish a book of his poetry, and he has not only lunched again among...
View ArticleIs Siegfried Sassoon a Good Chap, or Only Rather a Humbug? Cynthia Asquith...
Siegfried Sassoon has pledged himself to slowing down and simplifying: he will focus on his men, and think about nothing but the “groove” that an infantry subaltern finds himself in. This sounds rather...
View ArticleSiegfried Sassoon is Working Up to a Climax; Wilfred Owen is Working for the...
Apologies in advance for the long post: this is one of those days on which a whole host of our regulars provide a sharp insight or a significant update. Siegfried Sassoon, at least, takes it easy on...
View ArticleSiegfried Sassoon’s Reward; Vera Brittain Reverses Course
Siegfried Sassoon has been up and down of late, but he is essentially a man in limbo. He may write pastoral reveries or character studies of the men he commands or a prose ode to a new Canadian officer...
View ArticleDuff Cooper and Diana Manners Wish Upon a Star; Vera Brittain Queries...
Duff Cooper is a somewhat ingenuous diary-writer, and, in his poor-little-privileged-boy way, something of a naif, always being caught out by those treacherous foes champagne and pretty women and...
View ArticleSiegfried Sassoon Rotates Away from Bloodthirsty Brutes in Businesslike...
Only yesterday Siegfried Sassoon was settling in to his new trenches. But just as the military temperature began to rise–his first patrol in a year, a bombardment and a casualty, now a raid–he rotated...
View ArticleSiegfried Sassoon Hymns a Quebecois Captain; Ivor Gurney at Loose Ends;...
First, today, big news: Siegfried Sassoon is grumpy again. June 10 A dull, rainy morning. Among my letters I find the Southdown Hunt balance sheet… The hunt accounts always make me homesick . . . I am...
View ArticleJohn Ronald Tolkien Ill Once Again; Kate Luard on the Flu, the Bombers, and...
A temporary, summertime farewell to two contributors, today, both taken ill and not about to write more any time soon. But of John Ronald Tolkien and Kate Luard, it’s probably not hard to guess who is...
View ArticleKate Luard on Hopes and Hospitality; Wilfred Owen Prepares; Siegfried...
Before we get to our poets home in England, we have Kate Luard, our nurse in France, cheering on the advance: Saturday, August 10th, 10 p.m. There are wonderful things happening. By now we ought to be...
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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