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xlv, 312 pages ; 21 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-299) and index. |
| Contents |
Men who march away ; England to Germany in 1914 ; On the Belgian expatriation ; The pity of it ; In time of 'the breaking of nations' ; Before marching and after ; A New Year's Eve in war time ; I looked up from my writing ; According to the mighty working ; And there was a great calm / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- Epitaph on an army of mercenaries / A.E. Housman (1859-1936) -- Field ambulance in retreat ; After the retreat ; Dedication / May Sinclair (1863-1946) -- On being asked for a war poem ; An Irish airman foresees his death / W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) -- For all we have and are ; Tin fish ; The children ; The trade ; My boy Jack ; The verdicts ; Mesopotamia ; Gethsemane ; Epitaphs ; A death-bed ; Justice ; The changelings ; The vineyard / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- For the fallen / Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) -- May, 1915 ; June, 1915 ; The cenotaph / Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) -- Tipperary days ; Only a Boche ; Tri-colour / Robert Service (1874-1958) -- A private ; The owl ; In memoriam (Easter, 1915) ; This is no case of petty right or wrong ; Rain ; Roads ; The cherry trees ; No one cares less than I ; As the team's head-brass ; The trumpet / Edward Thomas (1878-1917) -- The messages ; Breakfast ; Hit ; Between the lines ; Strawberries ; Otterburn ; Air-raid / Wilfrid Gibson (1878-1962) -- At the Somme ; Unidentified / Mary Borden (1886-1968) -- The redeemer ; A working party ; The kiss ; A night attack ; Christ and the soldier ; They ; The poet as hero ; Blighters ; Base details ; The rear-guard ; The general ; Repression of war experience ; Counter-attack ; How to die ; Glory of women ; Everyone sang ; On passing the new Menin Gate / Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) -- 1914 / Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) -- Prayer for those on the staff ; Into battle / Julian Grenfell (1888-1915) -- Magpies in Picardy ; Song of Amiens / T.P. Cameron Wilson (1888-1918) -- I saw a man this morning / Patrick Shaw Stewart (1888-1917) -- Pain ; To the Prussians of England ; To his love ; The bugle ; Billet ; First time in ; Strange hells ; Farewell ; La rime ; Serenade ; Joyeuse et Durandal ; The Stokes gunners ; The Bohemians ; The retreat ; Signallers ; It is near Toussaints ; The silent one / Ivor Gurney (1890-1937). |
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A worm fed on the heart of Corinth ; Break of day in the trenches ; August 1914 ; Louse hunting ; From France ; Returning, we hear the larks ; Dead man's dump ; Daughters of war ; Through these pale cold days / Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) -- The night patrol ; God! How I hate you, you young cheerful men! / Arthur Graeme West (1891-1917) -- Anthem for doomed youth ; The sentry ; Dulce et decorum est ; Insensibility ; Greater love ; Disabled ; Apologia pro poemate meo ; The show ; I saw his round mouth's crimson ; A terre ; Exposure ; Miners ; The last laugh ; Strange meeting ; Futility ; The send-off ; Mental cases ; The parable of the old man and the young ; Spring offensive ; Smile, smile, smile / Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) -- Prĉmaturi ; The falling leaves ; Afterwords / Margaret Postgate Cole (1893-1980) -- August 1914 ; Rouen ; Lamplight ; After the war ; The armistice ; For a girl ; Perfect epilogue / May Wedderburn Cannan (1893-1973) -- All the hills and vales along ; To Germany ; A hundred thousand million mites we go ; Two sonnets ; When you see millions of the mouthless dead / Charles Sorley (1895-1915) -- It's a queer time ; A dead Boche ; Corporal Stare ; A child's nightmare ; Two fusiliers ; Sergeant-major Money ; Recalling war / Robert Graves (1895-1985) -- from In parenthesis / David Jones (1895-1974) -- Festubert: the old German line ; Thiepval Wood ; 1916 seen from 1921 ; Illusions ; Concert party: Busseboom ; Vlamertinghe: passing the chateau, July 1917 ; La Quinque Rue ; Trench nomenclature ; Can you remember? ; Ancre sunshine / Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) -- Winter warfare ; The soldier addresses his body ; Advice to a girl from the war ; Trench poets ; War and peace ; Moonrise over battlefield / Edgell Rickword (1898-1982) -- Music-hall and trench songs: Never mind ; Mademoiselle from Armenteers ; Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag ; Fred Karno's army ; I want to go home ; The bells of hell ; If it's a German, guns up! ; Après la guerre fini ; The old barbed wire ; Hush! Here comes a whizz-bang ; That shit shute ; Bombed last night ; I wore a tunic ; Good-bye-ee! ; Oh! It's a lovely war. |
| Summary |
"The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent. Its poets mark the conflict in ways that are both intensely personal and as enduring as any monument. Their lines have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and consequences of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets and offers a fresh assessment of the work on the centenary of the Great War's outbreak. Focusing on the poets themselves, the book is organized by writer, not theme or chronology. It offers generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Rupert Brooke, whilst also incorporating less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. It also includes two previously unpublished poems by Ivor Gurney. 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."--Publisher's description. |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry.
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English poetry -- 20th century.
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War poetry, English.
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World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
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English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
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War poetry, English. (OCoLC)fst01170569
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Added Author |
Kendall, Tim, 1970- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780199581443 (hbk.) |
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0199581444 (hbk.) |
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