the-library-and-step-on-it: LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS: Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Sassoon: Sasso
the-library-and-step-on-it:LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS:Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.Sassoon: Sassoon and Owen - names that found their niche In literary history. Owen’s dead. The other one survived the bullet which Toward that War’s end just grazed him on the head. Yes; his career continued. But of late, His state of mind has made him wonder whether Sassoon’s continuance was appropriate… Should not these soldier poets have died together?Owen:Know that since mid-September, when you still regarded me as a tiresome little knocker on your door, I held you as Keats + Christ + Elijah + my Colonel + my father-confessor + Amenophis IV in profile. What’s that mathematically? In effect it is this: that I love you, dispassionately, so much, so very much, dear Fellow, that the blasting little smile you wear on reading this can’t hurt me in the least. If you consider what the above Names have severally done for me, you will know what you are doing. And you have fixed my Life – however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but I shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze. -- source link
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