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Author: Jon Silkin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1997-02-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780141180090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Published: 2017-09-21
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1788880196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Candace Ward
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-03-05
Total Pages: 83
ISBN-13: 048611323X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVRich 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: Tim Kendall
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2013-10-10
Total Pages: 1048
ISBN-13: 0191642053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Patrick Bridgwater
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-01-31
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1000769364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally 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.
Author: Gaby Morgan
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Published: 2014-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781447248644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection of poems written by people who experienced the war first hand - from soldiers to nurses, families and sweethearts. Themes range from early excitement, patriotism, bravery, friendship and loyalty to heartbreak, disillusionment and regret as the damaging effects of the war were revealed. Poets include Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Vera Brittain, Eleanor Farjeon, and many more.
Author: Santanu Das
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-11-18
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1107018234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War at the start of the war's centennial commemoration.
Author: John H. Johnston
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1400877350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author deals with the shock of World War I as it was registered in the work of Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Herbert Read, and David Jones. He finds in Read and Jones the culmination of a tendency away from personal lyric response toward formal control and a positive vision. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: David Roberts
Publisher: Saxon Publishers
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780952896913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased upon Minds at War by the same author, this book is designed for general readers who require less background information and for students, including those at GCSE and A Level. 140 poems are featured, together with background information and specialized vocabulary.
Author: Matthew George Walter
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2006-10-26
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0141922885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
