History & The Arts
The First World War: trauma and memory
...write poetry while in Craiglockhart, with Sassoon in particular offering advice and guidance to his younger friend. Some of this poetry was directly inspired by the mental trauma exhibited by other patients. Sassoon’s poem ‘Survivors’ and Owen’s poem ‘Mental Cases’, for example, were both written in Craiglockhart and hauntingly depict the debilitating mental...