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...clock this evening in the Living Room of the Union Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, the British poet, will lecture on the tendencies and changes in contemporary English poetry, and will read selections from his own poems. The meeting, which is held under the auspices of the Harvard and New England Poetry Clubs, will be open to all members of the Union. Mr. Robert S. Hillyer '17, president of the Harvard Poetry Club, will preside...
...Sassoon will be entertained at luncheon this noon by the Signet Society, and will be the guest of the Advocate at a dinner held in his honor in the Trophy Room of the Union, at 7 o'clock. Besides the poet, the guests invited are Norreys J. O'Conor '07, David M. Little '18, Robert Hillyer '17, and Robert N. Cram...
...Sassoon, born in England in 1886, was educated at Marlborough College and Clare College, Cambridge. While there, he wrote a number of poems of an idyllic nature, which he published privately for the benefit of a limited circle of admirers...
...effect of the war in changing his view-point was so great that his "Old Huntsman" brought him into fame almost overnight. Robert Nichols, a brother poet, has described the change in the following words: "The poetry of Siegfried Sassoon tends to divide itself into two rough classes--the idyllic and the satiric. War has defiled one to produce the other. At heart Siegfried Sassoon is an idealist." "Counter Attack" and "Picture Show" the poet's latest books, have still more increased his fame...
With the publication of his "Old Huntsman," Sassoon sprang into instant prominence, and his "Counter Attack" has led critics to place him in a class with Masefield and Noyes...