Ironically, the horrors of World War One produced a splendid flowering of British verse as young poets, many of them combatants, confronted their own morality, the death of dear friends, the loss of innocence, the failure of civilization, and the madness of war itself. This volume contains a rich selection of poems from that time by Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and others known especially for their war poetry — as well as poems by such major poets as Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, Robert Bridges, and Rudyard Kipling. Included amo... Read More
Ironically, the horrors of World War One produced a splendid flowering of British verse as young poets, many of them combatants, confronted their own morality, the death of dear friends, the loss of innocence, the failure of civilization, and the madness of war itself. This volume contains a rich selection of poems from that time by Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and others known especially for their war poetry — as well as poems by such major poets as Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, Robert Bridges, and Rudyard Kipling. Included amo... Read More
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Ironically, the horrors of World War One produced a splendid flowering of British verse as young poets, many of them combatants, confronted their own morality, the death of dear friends, the loss of innocence, the failure of civilization, and the madness of war itself. This volume contains a rich selection of poems from that time by Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and others known especially for their war poetry — as well as poems by such major poets as Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, Robert Bridges, and Rudyard Kipling. Included among a wealth of memorable verses are Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier," Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In the Pink" by Siegfried Sassoon, "In Flanders Fields" by Lieut. Col. McCrae, Robert Bridges' "To the United States of America," Thomas Hardy's "In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations,'" as well as works by Walter de la Mare, May Wedderburn Cannan, Ivor Gurney, Alice Meynell, and Edward Thomas. Moving and powerful, this carefully chosen collection offers today's readers an excellent overview of the brutal range of verse produced as poets responded to the carnage on the fields of Belgium and France.
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Price: $4.00
Pages: 80
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
Publication Date: 22nd April 1997
Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
ISBN: 9780486295688
Format: Paperback
Age: 14-99
BISACs: HISTORY / Military / World War I POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors)
Table of Contents
Rupert Brooke I. Peace II. Safety III. The Dead IV. The Dead V. The Soldier The Treasure Charles Hamilton Sorley To Germany When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead' Route March ('All the Hills and Vales Along') Edward Thomas This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong Adlestrop Tears The Owl A Private As the Team's Head Brass John McCrae In Flanders Fields Isaac Rosenberg Break of Day in the Trenches Louse Hunting "Returning, We Hear the Larks" Dead Man's Dump Wilfred Owen Arms and the Boy Greater Love Insensibility Dulce et Decorum Est Mental Cases Futility Disabled Anthem for Doomed Youth Strange Meeting Apologia Pro Poemate Meo Ivor Gurney The Silent One To His Love The Target Siegfried Sassoon In the Pink' A Working Party Blighters' They' The One-Legged Man Haunted The Troops The General Repression of War Experience Trench Duty Picture-Show Robert Graves To Lucasta on Going to the War - for the Fouth Time Goliath and David The Last Post When I'm Killed Letter to S. S. From Mametz Wood A Dead Boche The Next war Escape The Bough of Nonsense Not Dead The Assault Heroic Alice Meynell "Summer in England, 1914" Thomas Hardy Channel Firing Song of the Soldiers (Men Who March Away) Belgium's Destitute "Before Marching, and After " In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' The Pity of It Then and Now And There Was a Great Calm' Robert Bridges To the United States of America Trafalgar Square A. E. Housman Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries Rudyard Kipling The Mine-Sweepers For All We Have and Are' The Choice Walter de la Mare The Fool Rings His Bells How Sleep the Brave' May Wedderburn Cannan Rouen
Ironically, the horrors of World War One produced a splendid flowering of British verse as young poets, many of them combatants, confronted their own morality, the death of dear friends, the loss of innocence, the failure of civilization, and the madness of war itself. This volume contains a rich selection of poems from that time by Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and others known especially for their war poetry — as well as poems by such major poets as Robert Graves, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, Robert Bridges, and Rudyard Kipling. Included among a wealth of memorable verses are Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier," Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In the Pink" by Siegfried Sassoon, "In Flanders Fields" by Lieut. Col. McCrae, Robert Bridges' "To the United States of America," Thomas Hardy's "In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations,'" as well as works by Walter de la Mare, May Wedderburn Cannan, Ivor Gurney, Alice Meynell, and Edward Thomas. Moving and powerful, this carefully chosen collection offers today's readers an excellent overview of the brutal range of verse produced as poets responded to the carnage on the fields of Belgium and France.
Dover Original.
Price: $4.00
Pages: 80
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
Publication Date: 22nd April 1997
Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
ISBN: 9780486295688
Format: Paperback
Age: 14-99
BISACs: HISTORY / Military / World War I POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors)
Rupert Brooke I. Peace II. Safety III. The Dead IV. The Dead V. The Soldier The Treasure Charles Hamilton Sorley To Germany When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead' Route March ('All the Hills and Vales Along') Edward Thomas This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong Adlestrop Tears The Owl A Private As the Team's Head Brass John McCrae In Flanders Fields Isaac Rosenberg Break of Day in the Trenches Louse Hunting "Returning, We Hear the Larks" Dead Man's Dump Wilfred Owen Arms and the Boy Greater Love Insensibility Dulce et Decorum Est Mental Cases Futility Disabled Anthem for Doomed Youth Strange Meeting Apologia Pro Poemate Meo Ivor Gurney The Silent One To His Love The Target Siegfried Sassoon In the Pink' A Working Party Blighters' They' The One-Legged Man Haunted The Troops The General Repression of War Experience Trench Duty Picture-Show Robert Graves To Lucasta on Going to the War - for the Fouth Time Goliath and David The Last Post When I'm Killed Letter to S. S. From Mametz Wood A Dead Boche The Next war Escape The Bough of Nonsense Not Dead The Assault Heroic Alice Meynell "Summer in England, 1914" Thomas Hardy Channel Firing Song of the Soldiers (Men Who March Away) Belgium's Destitute "Before Marching, and After " In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' The Pity of It Then and Now And There Was a Great Calm' Robert Bridges To the United States of America Trafalgar Square A. E. Housman Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries Rudyard Kipling The Mine-Sweepers For All We Have and Are' The Choice Walter de la Mare The Fool Rings His Bells How Sleep the Brave' May Wedderburn Cannan Rouen
