Selected Poetry of the First World War
1st Edition
Published on 30. October 2013
198 pages
978-1-84870-526-5 (ISBN)
Description
The First World War was one of seemingly endless and unremitting waste and sacrifice. 'Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?' was Siegfried Sassoon's anguished cry for those whose sacrifice seemed futile. Yet eighty years later it is because of Sassoon and his fellow poets - Owen, Rosenberg, Sorley and many others - that we do remember.
This new anthology will serve as an introduction to the poetry of that great conflict, and the inclusion of a number of rarely anthologised poets, many from the ranks, as well as anonymous poems and songs, serves to bring a quality of freshness to the selection.
This new anthology will serve as an introduction to the poetry of that great conflict, and the inclusion of a number of rarely anthologised poets, many from the ranks, as well as anonymous poems and songs, serves to bring a quality of freshness to the selection.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Herts
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
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0,84 MB
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978-1-84870-526-5 (9781848705265)
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Marcus Clapham
Selected Poetry of the First World War
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12/1995
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Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- The Wordsworth Book of First World War Poetry
- Richard Aldington
- Bombardment
- Anonymous
- When this bloody war is over
- I don't want to be a soldier
- Sentry! What of the night?
- If you want to find the Sergeant
- R. H. Beckh
- No Man's Land
- William Eric Berridge
- To a Rat
- John Peale Bishop
- In the Dordogne
- Edmund Blunden
- The Zonnebeke Road
- 1916 Seen from 1921
- Two Voices
- Robert Bridges
- The Chivalry of the Sea
- Lord Kitchener
- Trafalgar Square
- Rupert Brooke
- 1914: I. Peace
- II. Safety
- III. The Dead
- IV. The Dead
- V. The Soldier
- G. K. Chesterton
- Elegy in a Country Churchyard
- Leslie Coulson
- War
- Who Made the Law?
- Ford Madox Ford
- That Exploit of Yours
- Gilbert Frankau
- The Deserter
- John Freeman
- Armistice Day
- John Galsworthy
- The Soldier Speaks
- Valley of the Shadow
- Julian Grenfell
- Prayer for Those on the Staff
- Into Battle
- Ivor Gurney
- Ballad of the Three Spectres
- To His Love
- The Silent One
- The Bohemians
- War Books
- Strange Hells
- Thomas Hardy
- Men Who March Away
- Channel Firing
- W. N. Hodgson
- Before Action
- A. E. Housman
- Here Dead Lie We
- Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
- T. E. Hulme
- Trenches: St Eloi
- Philip Johnstone
- High Wood
- Rudyard Kipling
- For all we have and are
- The Choice
- Gethsemane (1914-18)
- Common Form
- A Dead Statesman
- W. S. S. Lyon
- I tracked a dead man down a trench
- John McCrae
- In Flanders Fields
- E. A. Mackintosh
- Sniper Sandy
- A. J. Mann
- The Soldier
- Frederic Manning
- The Face
- Grotesque
- The Sign
- The Trenches
- Neil Munro
- Pipes in Arras
- Lochaber No More
- Sir Henry Newbolt
- The Vigil
- A Letter from the Front
- Robert Nichols
- By the Wood
- Casualty
- Wilfred Owen
- Exposure
- The Dead-Beat
- Dulce et Decorum Est
- Anthem for Doomed Youth
- Disabled
- Miners
- Apologia pro Poemate Meo
- The Show
- Insensibility
- The Send-off
- Mental Cases
- Futility
- Strange Meeting
- The Sentry
- Smile, Smile, Smile
- Spring Offensive
- The Chances
- Edgell Rickword
- The Soldier Addresses His Body
- Winter Warfare
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Marching
- Break of Day in the Trenches
- Louse Hunting
- Returning, We Hear the Larks
- Dead Man's Dump
- Daughters of War
- Girl to Soldier on Leave
- The Destruction of Jerusalem ?by the Babylonian Hordes
- The Immortals
- Saki (H. H. Munro)
- Carol
- Siegfried Sassoon
- The Death-Bed
- They
- Base Details
- The General
- Dreamers
- A Working Party
- Attack
- Counter-Attack
- The Rearguard
- Glory of Women
- Does It Matter?
- Suicide in the Trenches
- Memorial Tablet
- Aftermath
- On Passing the New Menin Gate
- Wirers
- Alan Seeger
- Rendezvous
- Champagne, 1914-15
- P. H. Shaw-Stewart
- I saw a man this morning
- G. B. Smith
- April 1916
- Charles Hamilton Sorley
- When you see millions of the mouthless dead
- All the hills and vales along
- J. E. Stewart
- On Revisiting the Somme
- J. W. Streets
- Serenity
- Edward Thomas
- Man and Dog
- The Owl
- In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)
- Fifty Faggots
- This is no case of petty right or wrong
- Rain
- Roads
- February Afternoon
- The Cherry Trees
- As the Team's Head-Brass
- Gone, gone again
- A Private
- A. G. West
- The Night Patrol
- God! How I hate you, you young cheerful men
- T. P. Cameron Wilson
- Magpies in Picardy
- W. B. Yeats
- An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
- On Being Asked for a War Poem
- List of Poem Titles
- List of First Lines
