First World War Poems From the Front

First World War Poems From the Front

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  • Author: Paul O'Prey
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781782816720
  • Category : Electronic books
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 176


First World War Poems from the Front

First World War Poems from the Front

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  • Author: Paul O'Prey
  • Publisher: Imperial War Museum
  • ISBN: 1912423324
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 177

From the worst horrors of modern trench warfare a small handful of soldiers and nurses created a body of poetry that is so vivid and intense that one hundred years later it has engraved itself on our national consciousness. This anthology focuses on those poets who were on the front line, from the famous Sassoon, Owens and Graves, to nurses like Vera Brittain. The poems are accompanied by a brief and accessible introduction, which sets the context for a reader new to the poems, as well as short biographical profiles of the poets.


Women's Poetry of the First World War

Women's Poetry of the First World War

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  • Author: Nosheen Khan
  • Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
  • ISBN: 9780813116778
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244


Sorrow and Dismay

Sorrow and Dismay

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  • Author: Tanja Bekhuis
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780999660461
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 90

SORROW AND DISMAY is an illustrated meditation on the horror and stupidity of the Great War. The selected poems are by Siegfried Sassoon, a British officer. Sassoon documented trench warfare in poems soaked with pain. He confronted the reader with details of tedium and battle on the Western Front. He wrote with sarcasm on the motives of people in power and the absurdity of romantic views of war. He was masterful in capturing the language of soldiers and wartime trauma. The images in this book complement Sassoon's poems and are in sympathy with his anti-war views. Includes 44 war poems, 24 illustrations, Foreword, and Index of First Lines. Sassoon is one of sixteen WWI poets commemorated in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. KEYWORDS : World War I poetry; WWI poetry; First World War poetry; Great War poetry; Western Front; Siegfried Sassoon; British poet; anti-war poet; anti-war poetry; war poems; shell shock; trench warfare; wartime trauma; psychological impact of war. REVIEW QUOTES: "There is something in Mr. Sassoon's poems of war so stark and bitter -- This awfulness, these grotesquely horrid details are not what we -- care to imagine. -- There is no room for great hope -- in this 'hell where youth and laughter go.'" --The Guardian"Siegfried Sassoon is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about World War I -- [he] wrote of the horror and brutality of trench warfare and contemptuously satirized generals, politicians, and churchmen. -- In 1957 he was awarded the Queen's Medal for Poetry." --Poetry Foundation


A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 (WWI Centenary Series)

A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 (WWI Centenary Series)

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  • Author: G. H. Clarke
  • Publisher: Read Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 1473368367
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 318

"The present Anthology contains a number of representative poems produced by English-speaking men and women. The editorial policy has been humanly hospitable, rather than academically critical, especially in the case of some of the verses written by soldiers at the Front, which, however slight in certain instances their technical merit may be, are yet psychologically interesting as sincere transcripts of personal experience, and will, it is thought, for that very reason, peculiarly attract and interest the reader. It goes without saying that there are several poems in this group which conspicuously succeed also as works of art. For the rest, the attempt has been made, within such limitations as have been experienced, to present pretty freely the best of what has been found available in contemporary British and American war verse." This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.


War Poems and Others

War Poems and Others

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  • Author: Wilfred Owen
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780900882463
  • Category : War poetry, English
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 178

The complete edition of Wilfred Owen's, War Poems and Others. " What passing-bells for those who die as castle? - Only the monstrous anger of the guns.'' This edition contains all Wilfred Owen's war poetry with an Introduction and Notes on Owen as a poet by Dominic Hibberd. It also includes an Historical Introduction and Study Guide written for Australian students by William Hovey, formerly History Co-ordinator at Santa Sabina College, Strathfield NSW. Mr Hovey provides an Historical Introduction to the western front and relates Owen's poetry to the Australian troops in the trenches and to the factors that motivated them to enlist. The Study Guide has a full list of books and other resources relevant to the study of the Australian experience of World War One and a selection of assignments and activities for student use.


Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War

Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War

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  • Author: Ralf Schneider
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 3110422557
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 595

The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today. The continuing interest in World War I highlights the interdependence of war experience, the imaginative re-creation of that experience in writing, and individual as well as collective memory. In the first part of the handbook, the major genres of war writing and film are addressed, including of course poetry and the novel, but also the short story; furthermore, it is shown how our conception of the Great War is broadened when looked at from the perspective of gender studies and post-colonial criticism. The chapters in the second part present close readings of important contributions to the literary and filmic representation of World War I in Great Britain. All in all, the contributions demonstrate how the opposing forces of focusing and canon-formation on the one hand, and broadening and revision of the canon on the other, have characterised British literature and culture of the First World War.


The German Poets of the First World War

The German Poets of the First World War

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  • Author: Patrick Bridgwater
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000769364
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 180

Originally 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.


The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

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  • Author: Matthew George Walter
  • Publisher: Penguin UK
  • ISBN: 0141922885
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 448

This 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.


Poems by Wilfred Owen - In the Trenches

Poems by Wilfred Owen - In the Trenches

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  • Author: Wilfred Owen
  • Publisher: Read Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 1528789725
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 52

“Poems by Wilfred Owen - In the Trenches” is a 1920 collection of poetry by English poet and soldier Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (1893–1918). A leading poet during the First World War, his work concentrated on life in the trenches and gas warfare. Some of his best-known works include: "Dulce et Decorum est", "Insensibility", "Spring Offensive", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility", and "Strange Meeting". The poems include: “Strange Meeting”, “Greater Love”, “Apologia Pro Poemate Meo”, “The Show”, “Mental Cases”, “Parable Of The Old Men And The Young”, “Arms And The Boy”, “Anthem For Doomed Youth”, “The Send-Off”, “Insensibility”, “Dulce Et Decorum Est”, “The Sentry”, etc. A moving and stark representation of the horrors of life on the front lines not to be missed by fans and collectors of war poetry.