The previously unknown love poem is by Siegfried Sassoon, one of the greatest war poets, and is being published for the first time today in the Observer. Copyright Siegfried Sassoon by kind permission of the Estate of George Sassoon. Photograph: Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University LibraryJean Moorcroft Wilson, author of the acclaimed biography, Siegfried Sassoon: Soldier, Poet, Lover, Friend, said: “I haven’t seen it before. The Sassoon poem “fell into my lap”, he said. Copyright Siegfried Sassoon by kind permission of the Estate of George Sassoon

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2019 05:59 UTC