To coincide with the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI, actor David Harewood narrates an animated interpretation of the poem How To Die by Siegfried Sassoon for BBC Newsnight ...

Siegfried Sassoon was born on 8 September 1886 in Kent. His father was part of a Jewish merchant family, originally from Iran and India, and his mother part of the artistic Thorneycroft family.

Video summary. Jeremy Paxman explores the poetry of Siegfried Sassoon, mental health problems suffered by soldiers in the First World War, shell shock and the low morale caused by the huge British ...

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.

Although Sassoon survived the war and went on to write novels as well as poetry, dying in 1967 at age 80, other WWI poets, most notably Wilfred Owen, were not as lucky.

Unpublished Siegfried Sassoon poems get first reading - and show anti-war sentiment was toned down before publication Phrases like 'you're great at murder' were later scratched from 'Atrocities' ...

Siegfried Sassoon’s poems captured life in the trenches of WWI. Mary Beth Griggs. August 4, 2014. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter! Siegfried Sassoon Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS.

One of the reasons we’re able to understand, with such vivid knowledge, what life was like during WW1 is thanks to some great poetry. But what many who grew up reading Britain's First World War ...

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.