Reviews for Siegfried Sassoon Scorched Glory

The average rating for Siegfried Sassoon Scorched Glory based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-09-09 00:00:00 Andrew Haworth Well-written, and still useful, 1924 study of the unromantic circumstances that led to Byron's personal involvement in the Greek Revolt. A beautifully detailed account of the complete failure of this undertaking in the winter of 1823/1824, and of Byron's growing disappointment and uncertainty, and his final illness and death in the marshes and pouring rain of Missolonghi -- an area so wet that "the dykes of Holland when broken down are deserts for dryness in comparison", as Byron said -- surrounded by unruly Souliot mercenaries, European adventurers, parasites, and incompetent doctors. Despite good psychological insight and a remarkably no-nonsense approach to the poet's life, Nicolson's tone is very apologetic regarding British imperialism, while using Orientalist, even racist terminology to describe the Ottoman Empire -- in sharp contrast to Byron's own approach to the wildly complicated political and ethnic situation in the early nineteenth-century Aegean.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-03-21 00:00:00 Christopher Chapman Not as good as others about Byron. It focuses mostly on the last years in Greece.