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Arrangements have been made to have Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, who will speak in the Living Room of the Union on Thursday evening, April 29, at 8 o'clock, introduced by Robert Frost, who is president of the New England Poetry Club. Mr. Frost is now in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he has been spending the winter. He has been in poor health during the winter, but expects to be able to make the trip to Boston on April...
Siegfried Sassoon, the young English soldier-poet, will speak in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock on Thursday evening, April 29, instead of Wednesday, April 28, the date announced in yesterday's CRIMSON...
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...
...Sassoon enlisted as a private in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on August 3, 1914, and in the following five years, during which time he rose to the rank of captain, he served in both France and Palestine, was wounded three times and was decorated with the Military Cross...
...Sassoon is now in this country, giving lectures and readings from his poems...