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 * 1) Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was born on September 8th, 1886 in Kent, and died on on September 1st, 1967. Sassoon was the middle child among three children. His parents separated when he was four and his mother never got over it. Sassoon attended Clare College in Cambridge where he studied law and history. He dropped out before earning a degree and his income from publishing his writings was enough for him to be able to not look for a job. Sassoon joined the British army but because he broke his arm while riding, he was put out of action before he could leave England. Around the spring of 1915, Sassoon's brother Hamo died which hit him very hard. He was commissioned into the third battalion as a second lieutenant on May 29th, 1915 and was sent to the First Battalion in France, where he met Robert Graves. Graves shifted Sassoon's style of writing from romanticism to what can be called “gritty realism”. Besides Graves, the war also greatly influenced Sassoon. He intended to convey the terrors of war and the irony of propaganda. Sassoon also suffered from Shell Shock and was sent to be treated at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, where he met Wilfred Owen. Sassoon became a great influence on Owen's poetry. Sassoon survived the war and went on to embark on a lecture tour around the United States of America, Europe and Britain. He also became more open about his homosexuality but eventually married Hester Getty and had one son, George Sassoon. However, Sassoon and his wife separated in 1945.

- Ashley Loh