Poetry of the First World War

Author: Tim Kendall
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191642053
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1048

Book Description
The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War. A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. Although the War has now passed out of living memory, its haunting of our language and culture has not been exorcised. Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us.

First World War Poetry

Author: Jon Silkin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141180090
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.

World War One British Poets

Author: Candace Ward
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048611323X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description
DIVRich selection of powerful, moving verse includes Brooke's "The Soldier," Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In Flanders Fields," by Lieut. Col. McCrae, more by Hardy, Kipling, many others. /div

World War I Poetry

Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
ISBN: 1788880196
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
The horrors of the First World War released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it as well as many other giants of world literature. Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and W B Yeats are just some of the poets whose work is featured in this anthology. The raw emotion unleashed in these poems still has the power to move readers today. As well as poems detailing the miseries of war there are poems on themes of bravery, friendship and loyalty, and this collection shows how even in the depths of despair the human spirit can still triumph.

The Poems of Wilfred Owen

Author: Wilfred Owen
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853264238
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
This volume contains all of Owen's best known work, only four of which were published in his lifetime. His war poems were based on his acute observations of the soldiers with whom he served on the Western front, and reflect the horror and waste of World War One.

English Poetry of the First World War

Author: Catherine W. Reilly
Publisher: London : G. Prior
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 444

Book Description

Poems from the First World War

Author: Gaby Morgan
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN: 9781447248644
Category : War poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Collection of poems written by people who experienced the war first hand - from soldiers to nurses, families and sweethearts. Themes range from early excitement, patriotism, bravery, friendship and loyalty to heartbreak, disillusionment and regret as the damaging effects of the war were revealed. Poets include Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Vera Brittain, Eleanor Farjeon, and many more.

The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

Author: Matthew George Walter
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141922885
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains: the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect the different experiences of war not just for the soldiers but for those left behind. This is what makes this volume more accessible and satisfying than others. In addition to the established canon there are poems rarely anthologised and a selection of soldiers' songs to reflect the voices of the soldiers themselves.

The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War

Author: Santanu Das
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107018234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345

Book Description
This Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War at the start of the war's centennial commemoration.

First World War Poems from the Front

Author: Paul O'Prey
Publisher: Imperial War Museum
ISBN: 1912423324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
From the worst horrors of modern trench warfare a small handful of soldiers and nurses created a body of poetry that is so vivid and intense that one hundred years later it has engraved itself on our national consciousness. This anthology focuses on those poets who were on the front line, from the famous Sassoon, Owens and Graves, to nurses like Vera Brittain. The poems are accompanied by a brief and accessible introduction, which sets the context for a reader new to the poems, as well as short biographical profiles of the poets.