Six Poets of the Great War

Six Poets of the Great War : Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and Many Others

A collection of anthologies, resource and reference books, including titles from Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Alex Madina, Jo Phillips and Adrian Barlow.

  • For ages: 12-17
  • Format: Paperback | 162 pages
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 10mm | 204g
  • Publication date: 30 Sep 1995
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication City/Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN10: 052148569X
  • ISBN13: 9780521485692
  • Bestsellers rank: 424,979

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First World War Poetry
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Pages: 324
Authors: Jon Silkin
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-02-01 - Publisher: Penguin

A 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 compa
World War One British Poets
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Pages: 83
Authors: Candace Ward
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-05 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

DIVRich selection of powerful, moving verse includes Brooke's "The Soldier," Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In Flanders Fields," by Lieut. Col. McCrae, more
Deep Cry
Language: en
Pages: 418
Authors: Anne Powell
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-06 - Publisher: The History Press

The lives, deaths, poetry, diaries and extracts from letters of sixty-six soldier-poets are brought together in this limited edition of Anne Powell’s unique a
Some Desperate Glory
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: Max Egremont
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-01 - Publisher: Picador

2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars. And while the First World War devastated Europe, it
Six Poets of the Great War
Language: en
Pages: 162
Authors: Adrian Barlow
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-05-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

A collection of anthologies, resource and reference books, including titles from Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Alex Madina, Jo Phillips and Adrian Barlow.
Six Poets
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Alan Bennett
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Yale University Press

The inimitable Alan Bennett selects and comments upon six favorite poets and the pleasures of their works In this candid, thoroughly engaging book, Alan Bennett
Tommy Rot
Language: en
Pages: 179
Authors: John Sadler
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-02 - Publisher: The History Press

The Great War 1914−1918 was dubbed the 'war to end all wars' and introduced the full flowering of industrial warfare to the world. The huge enthusiasm which h
Poetry of the Great War
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Dominic Hibberd
Categories: Poetry
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Stand in the Trench, Achilles
Language: en
Pages: 476
Authors: Elizabeth Vandiver
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-02-18 - Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

A study of the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases
The Long Shadow
Language: en
Pages: 488
Authors: David Reynolds
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-07 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

In Britain we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders -- of young men whose li