First World War Poetry
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Author | : Tim Kendall |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 1048 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0191642053 |
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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.
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : Arcturus Publishing |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2017-09-21 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1788880196 |
Download World War I Poetry Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Jon Silkin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1997-02-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780141180090 |
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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.
Author | : Candace Ward |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2012-03-05 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 048611323X |
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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
Author | : David Roberts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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The First World War cast its shadow over the 20th century. The poets were those most gifted to record the personal, moral and spiritual impact of those traumatic years. This anthology contains 250 poems by 80 poets, including photographs & maps.
Author | : Matthew George Walter |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2006-10-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141922885 |
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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.
Author | : Tim Kendall |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199581444 |
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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 not grow old, as they 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.
Author | : Luigi Pirandello |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 1998-10-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0141181036 |
Download Poems of the Great War Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Published to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Armistice, this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of World War I poetry. The sequence of poems is random and drawn from a number of sources, mixing both well-known and less familiar poetry.
Author | : Paul O'Prey |
Publisher | : Imperial War Museum |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2016-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1912423324 |
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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.
Author | : Patrick Bridgwater |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2020-01-31 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1000769364 |
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Originally published in 1985, this book provides a full survey of the best and most significant work of German writers to the First World War. Including (in both German and English) the texts of all the main poems discussed, this book contains many not readily available elsewhere. Authors discussed include Trakl, Rile and George as well as less familiar names . The book not only corrects the distorted view of the subject perpetuated by most histories of German literature, but will also help to English First World War poetry into perspective.