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.

The World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon led a life of sharply angled turns. Despite his Wagnerian name, Sassoon was the quintessential English playboy (fox-hunting, cricket) who, like many others of ...

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 ...

The problem with most films about writers is that they’re so concerned with biographical data and dramatic comings and goings that there’s no room left for words, which aren’t just an author’s stock ...

The source of Sassoon’s rage, and the film’s, can be found in his service in the Army during World War I — an experience that, notwithstanding his displays of heroism and honor, left him in a state of ...

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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 ...