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Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union, Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, the young British soldier-poet, will lecture on contemporary English writers, and will give a commentative reading of selections from his own poems. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Harvard and New England Poetry Clubs, through whose kindness all members of the Union are invited to attend. The speaker will be introduced by Robert S. Hillyer '17, president of the Harvard Poetry Club...
...Sassoon was born in 1886, and received his education at Marlborough College and Clare College, Cambridge. After leaving the university, he wrote a number of poems, reminiscent of nature and peaceful pursuits, and published them privately, so that before the war he was known only to a small circle...
When the war broke out in 1914, Mr. Sassoon enlisted immediately in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers as a private, and in the following five years rose to the rank of captain. He was wounded three times and decorated with the Military Cross. His experiences entirely changed his point of view, and he began to interest himself in the political aspects of the struggle, and a letter of his on this subject was the cause of a debate in the House of Commons in July...
...Sassoon is speaking here and reading from his poems at the invitation of the New England and Harvard Poetry Clubs. Through the kindness of these two societies, all members of the Union will have an opportunity to hear Mr. Sassoon read and speak. The reading will be held in the Llying Room of the Union at 8 o'clock on Thursday evening...
...Sassoon, the young English soldier-poet, who has attracted attention both by the excellence of his later verse and by his expressed beliefs in regard to war, has been invited to speak here (and to read from his own works) by the Harvard and New England Poetry Clubs. The lecture will be open to all members of the Union...