Author: Jacqueline Theodore Trotter

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-11-22

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781334366284

Excerpt from Valour and Vision: Poems of the War, 1914-1918 The intention is to present the poet as the historian, and to illustrate the different aspects and phases of the war by contemporary poetry. An attempt has been made to select a number of poems of real literary value, and arrange them in ordered sequence. Since the historian is concerned with the thoughts and aspirations of a nation as well as with actual events, the poems chosen are not only descriptive of campaigns and battles, but in many cases expressive of moods and memories some have served a passing purpose, others deal with thoughts and episodes that should never be forgotten. The poems have been grouped chronologically in five sections corresponding to the five years of the war. A short and very informal list of the principal events of the year has been placed at the beginning of each section and is merely intended to supply the context of the poems that follow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.