The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
The recent PBS 8-part miniseries THE GREAT WAR sparked renewed interest in the First World War. More than photographs or eyewitness reports, the poetry written during the embedded the horror of the war in our consciousness. Now, supplemented with five new poems, the works of 38 British, European,...
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The recent PBS 8-part miniseries THE GREAT WAR sparked renewed interest in the First World War. More than photographs or eyewitness reports, the poetry written during the embedded the horror of the war in our consciousness. Now, supplemented with five new poems, the works of 38 British, European, and American writers collected here include some of the most outstanding and poignant poems of this century.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141180090 (0141180099)
Publish date: May 1st 1997
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Some very interesting information in the introduction that I hadn't realised. It's all quite obvious in retrospect but it was still a series of lightbulb moments for me so I'll make reference to it. The reason why there were hundreds of thousands of poems written and published during World War One w...
IntroductionAcknowledgementsA Note on the TextPrelude--On the idle hill of summer, A. E. Housman1 Your Country Needs You'Let the foul Scene proceed'--Channel Firing, Thomas Hardy--The Eve of War, Geoffrey Faber--On Receiving the First News of the War, Isaac Rosenberg--The Marionettes, Walter de la M...
IntroductionAcknowledgementsA Note on the TextPrelude--On the idle hill of summer, A. E. Housman1 Your Country Needs You'Let the foul Scene proceed'--Channel Firing, Thomas Hardy--The Eve of War, Geoffrey Faber--On Receiving the First News of the War, Isaac Rosenberg--The Marionettes, Walter de la M...
It is difficult for me to know what I should be reviewing here: the poetry within or the entire collection? I would give the poetry five stars, for it is an absolutely fantastic collection of poetry that can never be stopped in telling the gruesome truth of War and All. It also features poetry by wo...
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 by Jon Silkin, Various, now listed on BookLikes)