Counter-Attack and Other Poems

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Counter-Attack and Other Poems is a 1918 collection of anti-war poetry by Siegfried Sassoon that vividly depicts the horrors and futility of trench warfare in World War I.

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Counter-Attack and Other Poems canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Siegfried Sassoon
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depicts horrors of trench warfare
psychological impact of combat
genre anti-war literature
war poetry
hasPoem Atrocities
Base Details
Blighters
Counter-Attack
Does It Matter?
Fight to a Finish
Glory of Women
Lamentations
Remorse
Repression of War Experience
Sick Leave
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
surface form: Suicide in the Trenches

The Death-Bed
The Dug-Out
The Effect
The Fathers
The General
Glory of Women
surface form: The Glory of Women

The Hero
The Investiture
The Kiss
The Last Meeting
The One-Legged Man
The Rear-Guard
To Any Dead Officer
influenced perceptions of World War I in English literature
language English
literaryPeriod World War I literature
movement British war poetry
notableFor critique of military command
vivid realism of front-line combat
publicationYear 1918
subject World War I
death in war
front-line experience
futility of war
military leadership
soldiers
trench warfare
war trauma
tone bitter
realistic
satirical

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Siegfried Sassoon notableWork Counter-Attack and Other Poems
The Old Huntsman and Other Poems relatedWork Counter-Attack and Other Poems
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon relatedWork Counter-Attack and Other Poems