- W.H.R. Rivers, Instinct and the Unconscious (Cambridge, 1920), p. 2.Google Scholar
- W.H.R. Rivers, Conflict and Dream (London, 1923), p. 171.Google Scholar
- “I have just been to Cambridge to stay with W.H.R. Rivers, ethnologist and psycho-analyst. This fellow is one of the most interesting” (Letter to Hugh Walpole, 12 December 1919; Letters of Arnold Bennett: Vol. III (London, 1970), p. 116).Google Scholar
- The reference is to Frances Cornford’s ‘Rupert Brooke: “A young Apollo, golden-haired / Stands dreaming on the verge of strife / Magnificently unprepared / For the long littleness of life”.Google Scholar
- The religious metaphor is not that far-fetched: at one stage Sherston refers to Rivers as “my father-confessor” (59).Google Scholar
- Thorpe (1966), p.103.Google Scholar
- In this respect it is interesting to note that The Old Century, the first volume of his straight autobiographies, was published in September 1938, exactly 2 years after Sherston’s Progress.Google Scholar
- Edmund Blunden describes a similar incident in Undertones of War (Harmondsworth, 1982), p. 59.Google Scholar
- Sassoon was not the first to do so; in 1930 Henry Williamson had published his satirical war novel The Patriot’s Progress.Google Scholar
- Cf. John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress (Harmondsworth, 1965), p. 104. D. Felicitas Corrigan attributes this line wrongly to Valiant-for-Truth (cf. Corrigan (1973), p. 32 / Pilgrim’s Progress (1965), p. 348).Google Scholar
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Sherston's Progress
Sherston's Progress
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, and Sherston's Progress. It was followed by Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston’s Progress,” the latter reflecting one of his pennames. Sassoon’s trilogy earned high praise for “precise and yet passionate” insight into the terrible cost of war and his evocative portrayal of “English society, politics and literature” ( New York Times. Sherston's Progress is of course best read at the conclusion of Sassoon's semi-autobiographical trilogy. Together, the three volumes tell a much larger story through his epic personal journey—one that takes an inexperienced boy from the quiet English countryside of the late nineteenth century and forces his development into a disillusioned but compassionate British Army officer who survived The Great War. Free 2-day shipping on qualified orders over $35. Buy Sherston's Progress: The Memoirs of George Sherston at Walmart.com.