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| Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land. |
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| Siegfried Sassoon |
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| 1886–1967, English poet and novelist. An officer in World War I, he expressed his conviction of the brutality and waste of war in grim, forceful, realistic verse—The Old Huntsman (1917), Counter-Attack (1918), Satirical Poems (1926), Vigils (1935), Sequences (1957), and others.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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Pronunciation:  s -s n´, s - from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- His poetry—at times violent, always honest—expressed his conviction of the brutality and waste of war in grim, forceful, realistic verse.
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- Sassoon, Siegfried, 48335 to 48352
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- ANTHOLOGIZED VERSE
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- Aftermath (MBP); Dreamers (MBP); Rear-Guard (MBP); Thrushes (MBP); To Victory (MBP)
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