Scott Simon talks with director Terence Davies about the new film "Benediction." It's on the life of English poet Siegfried Sassoon, one of the leading poets of World War I. Lt. Siegfried Sassoon was ...

The hell where youth and laughter go. A decorated veteran of the Western Front before he turned conscientious objector, Sassoon knew of what he spoke. Sprinkling passages of his poetry over somber ...

The warrior-poets were among the most significant chroniclers of World War I. “If I should die, think only this of me;/ That there’s some corner of a foreign field/ That is forever England” and “In ...

British soldiers from the Royal Welch Fusiliers and the Cheshire Regiment in a Belgian town on their way to Mons in 1914. The ranks of the Royal Welch Fusiliers later included the poets Siegfried ...

Terence Davies’s latest film is a biography of Siegfried Sassoon, whose writing about World War I changed British literature. By A.O. Scott When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

Lt. Siegfried Sassoon was a model British officer decorated for his daring and valor in the trenches of World War I, hailed by the soldiers he commanded as Mad Jack for his audacious nighttime raids.