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Siegfried Sassoon

1886 - 1967

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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Siegfried Sassoon has received more than 2,783,638 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Siegfried Sassoon is the 3,646th most popular writer (down from 3,441st in 2019), the 2,601st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,556th in 2019) and the 295th most popular British Writer.

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Siegfried Sassoon ranks 3,646 out of 7,302. Before him are Alessandro Tassoni, Ivo Vojnović, Tibor Déry, Eiko Kadono, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, and Lillian Hellman. After him are Ghada al-Samman, John Ashbery, Felix Timmermans, Driss Chraïbi, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, and Samih al-Qasim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Siegfried Sassoon ranks 177. Before him are Kálmán Darányi, Hiratsuka Raichō, Ernest Burgess, Grigory Neujmin, Othmar Schoeck, and Aloïse Corbaz. After him are Felix Timmermans, Franz Josef Popp, Austin Osman Spare, Lucien Gaudin, Hidetsugu Yagi, and George Cœdès. Among people deceased in 1967, Siegfried Sassoon ranks 155. Before him are Otto Erich Deutsch, Fernando Paternoster, Alberto Bayo, Daniel Jones, Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Carl Schuricht. After him are Milán Füst, Gigi Meroni, Gideon Ståhlberg, Edward Chamberlin, Samad Behrangi, and Zhou Zuoren.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Siegfried Sassoon ranks 2,601 out of 8,785. Before him are Vanessa Kirby (1988), Ernest William Brown (1866), Ronald Pickup (1940), Herbert Hall Turner (1861), Amelia Dyer (1837), and Constance Markievicz (1868). After him are John Crawfurd (1783), Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (1516), Caradoc (470), Phil Manzanera (1951), Simon Wright (1963), and Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Siegfried Sassoon ranks 295. Before him are Leslie Stephen (1832), Edith Durham (1863), George Gissing (1857), Graham Hancock (1950), I. A. Richards (1893), and Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893). After him are William Robertson Smith (1846), Diana Mosley (1910), Gertrude Jekyll (1843), Nancy Mitford (1904), Constance Lloyd (1858), and Georgette Heyer (1902).

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