Word: sassoon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sigfried Loraine Sassoon, the young English poet who has come into international prominence since the war, will speak at the Union on April 28 under the auspices of the Harvard and New England Poetry Clubs. Through the kindness of these two organizations all members of the Union have been invited to attend the lecture. Mr. Sassoon will read some of his own poems and talk on contemporary poetry, both British and American...
Before the war Mr. Sassoon was practically unknown as a poet, but in 1918, on the publication of "The Old Huntsmen," he suddenly became known as one of England's leading young poets. The war, changing his point of view and his style effected this sudden rise to fame...