For ever England
John Lucas, 16 June 1983
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
by Rupert Hart-Davis.
Faber, 160 pp., £5.25, March 1983,0 571 13010 0 Show More
by Rupert Hart-Davis.
Faber, 160 pp., £5.25, March 1983,
Siegfried Sassoon Diaries 1915-1918
edited by Rupert Hart-Davis.
Faber, 288 pp., £10.50, March 1983,0 571 11997 2 Show More
edited by Rupert Hart-Davis.
Faber, 288 pp., £10.50, March 1983,
“... which threatened his sense of identity. In his celebrated book The Great War and Modern Memory Paul Fussell claims that the trilogy of Memoirs ‘is in every way fictional ... it would be impossible to specify how it differs from any other novel written in the first person and based on the author’s own experience.’ That is astute but it oversteps ... ”