Packet 10: Bonus 18

Dr. W.H.R. Rivers’ discovery of a work by this author opens a historical novel by Pat Barker fictionalising him. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author, whose time at Craiglockhart hospital is the subject of Barker’s Regeneration. This author criticized the suffering of one conflict in poems like “Counter-Attack” and “Suicide in the Trenches.”
ANSWER: Siegfried Sassoon [or Siegfried Loriane Sassoon]
[10e] Sassoon often wrote about the miseries of this war. Wilfred Owen, who Sassoon met at Craiglockhart, criticized this war in his own poem “Dulce et Decorum Est.”
ANSWER: World War I [or WWI or WW1; or the First World War; or the Great War]
[10h] Sassoon’s poems that were critical of World War I contrasted with this earlier poet’s patriotic works. This poet declared “If I should die, think only this of me” in the opening of his poem “The Soldier.”
ANSWER: Rupert Brooke [or Rupert Chawner Brooke]
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