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Siegfried Sassoon: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Siegfried Loraine Sassoon
Born September 8, 1886 • England
Died September 1, 1967 (aged 80) • England
Notable Works “The Old Huntsman”
Movement / Style Georgian poetry

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Siegfried Sassoon, wearing a British army uniform and cap, looks directly at the camera in this 1915 black-and-white portrait.
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C.S. Lewis
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Rudyard Kipling
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Illustration from Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest
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Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
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Sir Stephen Spender
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Kingsley Amis
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C. Day-Lewis, 1968.
C. Day-Lewis
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
British author
Portrait of John Masefield, English poet and novelist, c. 1915, showing him in a suit with a high white collar and a contemplative expression.
John Masefield
British poet
Robert W. Service
Robert W. Service
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Eden Phillpotts
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Robert Graves
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Walter de la Mare, photograph by Mark Gerson.
Walter de la Mare
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
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Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
Claude McKay
Claude McKay
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Patrick Kavanagh
Irish poet
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Katharine Tynan
Irish poet and novelist
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
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George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith
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