What is Siegfried Sassoon?
{{Infobox person | name = Siegfried Sassoon | image = Siegfried Sassoon by George Charles Beresford (1915).jpg | alt = Photo of you man in military uniform | caption = Siegfried Sassoon in 1915 | birth_name = | birth_date = 8 September 1886 | birth_place = [[Matfield]], [[Kent]], [[England]] | death_date = 1 September 1967 (aged 80) | death_place = [[Heytesbury]], [[Wiltshire]], England | nationality = English | other_names = | known_for = Poet and novelist | occupation = }} '''Siegfried Sassoon''' (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an [[English people|English]] poet and novelist, who became widely known as a result of a protest against the [[First World War]] that he made in 1917.<ref name=bbc>{{cite web |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/sassoon_siegfried.shtml |title=BBC - History - Historic Figures: Siegfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967) |first= |last= |work=bbc.co.uk |year=2012 |accessdate=26 October 2012}}</ref> ==Background== Sassoon's father, Alfred, came from a very rich family, but they did not approve of his marriage and as a result he did not inherit any of the family fortune. Sassoon's mother, Theresa, came from a family of artists. She and Alfred had three sons: Michael, Siegfried and Hamo, but Alfred left her when the children were still very young. Alfred himself died not long afterwards, leaving Theresa to bring up the three boys. Although they were not as wealthy as Alfred's family, they were able to live comfortably in a large house near the village of Matfield in Kent.<ref name=KSC10122010>{{Cite news|title=War poet was tasty with bat |first=Frank |last=Chapman |newspaper=Kent and Sussex Courier |date=10 December 2010 |page=42}}</ref> ==Early life== As a young man, Siegfried could afford to keep a horse and became a very inspiring and a very good professional rider, but his greatest ambition was to be a millionaire and a poet. He did not succeed in finding a publisher for any of his work until just before the [[First World War]] broke out