First World War Poems From the Front
Published on 1. September 2016
144 pages
978-1-78281-672-0 (ISBN)
Description
This anthology from Imperial War Museum provides a new approach focusing on the best poems by the poets who were actually on the front line. It includes the most famous poets - Owen, Sassoon, Brooke - in greater than usual depth, plus rising stars such as Gurney and Blunden.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Rupert Brooke
- The Dead
- The Soldier
- I strayed about the deck
- Charles Sorley
- All the hills and vales along
- To Germany
- Two Sonnets
- When you see millions of the mouthless dead
- Robert Graves
- A Dead Boche
- Two Fusiliers
- The Legion
- November 11th
- The Last Day of Leave
- (1916) The Haunted House
- Sergeant-Major Money
- The Cuirassiers of the Frontier
- Recalling War
- The Oldest Soldier
- Siegfried Sassoon
- 'They'
- The Hero
- Counter-Attack
- The Rear-Guard
- Base Details
- The General
- Does it Matter?
- Survivors
- I Stood with the Dead
- Everyone Sang
- Mary Borden
- The Song of the Mud
- No, no! There is some sinister mistake
- See how the withered leaves
- Come to me quickly and take me away
- Unidentified
- Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
- His Mate
- To Stretcher-Bearers
- Old England
- Demobilised
- Edward Thomas
- In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)
- This is no case of petty right or wrong
- Rain
- 'Home'
- The Cherry Trees
- The sun used to shine
- The Trumpet
- As the team's head-brass
- No one cares less than I
- Lights Out
- David Jones
- Excerpts from In Parenthesis
- Isaac Rosenberg
- On Receiving News of the War: Cape Town
- Marching - as seen from the left file
- The Troop Ship
- In the Trenches
- Break of Day in the Trenches
- August 1914
- Louse Hunting
- Returning, we hear the larks
- Dead Man's Dump
- Vera Brittain
- The German Ward
- To My Ward-Sister on Night Duty
- Epitaph on My Days in Hospital
- The Lament of the Demobilised
- The Superfluous Woman
- Wilfred Owen
- Anthem for Doomed Youth
- 1914
- Apologia pro Poemate Meo
- Dulce et Decorum Est
- Strange Meeting
- Futility
- Mental Cases
- The Send-Off
- The Parable of the Old Man and the Young
- Exposure
- The Sentry
- Smile, Smile, Smile
- Laurence Binyon
- For the Fallen
- Fetching the Wounded
- Excerpt from The Arras Road
- Excerpt from Wingless Victory
- There is Still Splendour
- August Afternoon
- Edmund Blunden
- Festubert, 1916
- Rural Economy (1917)
- The Zonnebeke Road
- Concert Party: Busseboom
- Report on Experience
- 'Can You Remember?'
- May Cannan
- Rouen
- Lamplight
- Paris, November 11, 1918
- Paris Leave
- Ivor Gurney
- Song ('Severn Meadows')
- To His Love
- De Profundis
- La Gorgue
- Strange Hells
- First Time In
- Behind the Line
- The Bohemians
- The Silent One
- The Mangel-Bury
- It is Near Toussaints
- War Books
- Bibliography and text sources
- Acknowledgements
