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.

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.

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

Out in the Dark

Author: David Roberts
Publisher: Saxon Publishers
ISBN: 9780952896913
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Based upon Minds at War by the same author, this book is designed for general readers who require less background information and for students, including those at GCSE and A Level. 140 poems are featured, together with background information and specialized vocabulary.

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.

Great Poets of World War I

Author: Jon Stallworthy
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN: 9780786710980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
A wonderfully illustrated collection of critical analysis of poetry from World War I commemorates the great poetic voices produced by this terrible conflict, including such noted writers as Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owe, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Robert Graves, Julian Grenfell, and other notables.

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.

The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

Author: Matthew George Walter
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141922885
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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.

American Poetry and the First World War

Author: Tim Dayton
Publisher:
ISBN: 1108418783
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283

Book Description
Connects American poetry to the emergence of the United States as the leading global economic and political power.

The Penguin Book of First World War Stories

Author: Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141916494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534

Book Description
An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture and the many modes in which short fiction contributed to the war's literature. The selection covers different periods: the war years themselves, the famous boom years of the late 1920s to the more recent past in which the First World War has received new cultural interest.