{"id":2445,"date":"2014-08-03T18:49:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2014-08-03T18:49:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T18:49:10","slug":"a-soldier-poet-baring-his-soul-siegfried-sassoons-world-war-i-diaries-are-published-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/a-soldier-poet-baring-his-soul-siegfried-sassoons-world-war-i-diaries-are-published-online","title":{"rendered":"A Soldier Poet, Baring His Soul-Siegfried Sassoon\u2019s World War I Diaries Are Published Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

By ALAN COWELLAUG. 1, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/a>\"POETRY2-master180-v2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Siegfried Sassoon<\/p>\n

LONDON \u2014 He yearned for \u201ca genuine taste of the horrors.\u201d He never thought he would become a great poet, and if it were \u201cnot for mother and friends\u201d he would pray for a \u201cspeedy death.\u201d In a place of war, he wrote, \u201cI never thought to find such peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

In just one page of handwritten notes from December 1915, Siegfried Sassoon, sometimes called the most innocent of Britain\u2019s war poets, bared a soldier\u2019s soul, writing in a leather-bound notebook from a flyspeck village called Bourecq in northern France, where his company was stationed in \u201cstables dark and damp.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy inner life,\u201d he wrote, \u201cis far more real than the hideous realism of this land, the war zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of Friday, three days before the centenary of Britain\u2019s declaration of war on Germany at the beginning of World War I, those musings have become public and made available online as part of a remarkable archive of 4,100 handwritten pages digitized by the Cambridge University Library Project.<\/p>\n

Some of the notebooks still bear traces of mud from the battlefields, where Sassoon arrived in 1915. Some are stained with spilled wax, thought to be from candles, as he wrote at night. Their neat, handwritten pages \u2014 complete with revisions and excisions, sketches and even cricket scores in notebooks small enough to fit in a soldier\u2019s tunic \u2014 transport readers back to an era of personal documentation long before the existence of Twitter, selfies or social media.<\/p>\n

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