This ebook explores Siegfried Sassoon's writing of the twenties, thirties and forties, demonstrating the connections among trauma and nostalgia in a tradition saturated with the anxieties of war.Informed via the texts of Freud, W.H.R. Rivers and different mental writers of the early 20th century, in addition to modern theorists of nostalgia and trauma, this ebook examines the pathology of nostalgia conveyed in Sassoon's unpublished poems, letters and journals, along with his released paintings. It situates his ongoing nervousness approximately 'Englishness', modernity, and his relation to modernist aesthetics, in the context of different literary responses to the legacy of battle, and the specter of war's go back, through writers together with Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves and T. E. Lawrence.
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