War Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) [Hardcover]

John Hollander (Editor)

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Publication Date: October 12, 1999 | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

From Homer and Virgil to Byron and Yeats, from Shelley and Whitman to Auden and Stevens, from ancient China's anonymous bards to Poland's Mickiewicz and Israel's Amichai, poets of all times, places, and sensibilities have been moved to write about war. Here are more than one hundred of their most memorable poems, ranging from Horace on the Battle of Actium to Adrienne Rich's Vietnam-era "Newsreel." An extraordinary anthology.

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To The Duke Of Marlborough, Sels. by Joseph Addison
I Want To Die In My Own Bed by Yehuda Amichai
Shadow by Guillaume Apollinaire
Soldier's Song, Sels. by Wystan Hugh Auden
1 September 1939 by John Berryman
In Westminster Abbey by John Betjeman
David's Lament Over Saul And Jonathan by Bible
Lead! by Ambrose Bierce
The Crime Of The Ages; 1861 by Augusta Cooper Bristol
1914: 3. The Dead by Rupert Brooke
Incident Of The French Camp by Robert Browning
The Destruction Of Sennacherib by George Gordon Byron
On War by George Gordon Byron
Battle Of The Baltic by Thomas Campbell
Hohenlinden by Thomas Campbell
Ye Mariners Of England by Thomas Campbell
Rouen; 26 April - 25 May 1915 by May Wedderburn Cannan
Recruiting Drive by Charles Causley
The Veteran; May, 1916 by Margaret Postgate Cole
To Margot Heinemann by John Cornford
War Is Kind: 1 by Stephen Crane
Warnings Unheeded by Edward Estlin Cummings
Reconciliation by Cecil Day Lewis
Gallantry by Keith Castellaine Douglas
How To Kill by Keith Castellaine Douglas
The Colored Soldiers by Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Fury Of Aerial Bombardment by Richard Ghormley Eberhart
Concord Hymn; Sung At Completion Of Concord Monument, 1836 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ode Inscribed To W.h. Channing by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Blue And The Gray by Francis Miles Finch
Recalling War by Robert Ranke Graves
Captain In Time Of Peace by Thomson William Gunn
First War by Samuel Ha-nagid
'o Flodden Field' (in Memory Of Edwin Muir) by Donald Hall
Channel Firing by Thomas Hardy
The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy
The Grenadiers by Heinrich Heine
The Iliad: A Pause In The Fighting by Homer
The Iliad: Achilles Over The Trench by Homer
A Shropshire Lad: 1. 1887 by Alfred Edward Housman
The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell
Losses by Randall Jarrell
Lament Of A Soldier's Wife by Kao Ch'i
Defence Of Fort Mchenry by Francis Scott Key
After The American Rebellion by Rudyard Kipling
Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling
Farewell To Arms by Henry Lee
The Dream by Mikhail Yurevich (yuryevich) Lermontov
Lament Of The Frontier Guard by Li Po
The Arsenal At Springfield by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Battle Hymn Of The Republic by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To Lucasta, [on] Going To The Wars by Richard Lovelace
For The Union Dead by Robert Lowell
Pharsalia: Caesar Crosses The Rubicon by Lucan
In Flanders Fields by John Mccrae
The Conflict Of Convictions by Herman Melville
The Portent by Herman Melville
Shiloh; A Requiem by Herman Melville
On The Danger Of War by George Meredith
Carrier by William Meredith
May, 1915 by Charlotte Mew
How Much Longer? by Robert Mezey
The Year 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz
The War In Heaven: Raphael Tells Of Satan's Artillery by John Milton
Hitler Spring by Eugenio Montale
Ballad Of Hector In Hades by Edwin Muir
Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen
The War Song Of Dinas Vawr by Thomas Love Peacock
Aeneas Kills Turnus by Publius Vergilius Maro
The Aeneid: Aeneas Tells Of The Trojan Horse by Publius Vergilius Maro
After The Battle Of Actium by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Lessons Of The War: 1. Naming Of Parts by Henry Reed
Shooting Script. Part Ii 3-7/70: 9. Newsreel by Adrienne Cecile Rich
August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg
Break Of Day In The Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg
The Rear-guard by Siegfried Sassoon
The Drum by John Scott
The Battle Of Flodden Field, Sels. by Walter Scott
Gathering Song Of Donald [or, Donui Dhu] The Black by Walter Scott
Before The Battle Of Agincourt by William Shakespeare
King Henry Exhorts His Troops, Sels. by William Shakespeare
War, Sels. by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Glories Of Our Blood And State by James Shirley
Thermopylae by Simonides Of Ceos
Carentan O Carentan by Louis Simpson
Field Ambulance In Retreat; Via Dolorosa, Via Sacra by May Sinclair
'come On, Come Back' by Steve Smith
After Blenheim by Robert Southey
Two Armies by Stephen Spender
The Faerie Queene: Britomart Kills The Amazon by Edmund Spenser
Another Kind Of War by Wallace Stevens
Patrol by August Stramm
War Grave by August Stramm
Jerusalem Delivered: A Face-off In The Crusades by Torquato Tasso
The Charge Of The Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson
As The Team's Head Brass by Philip Edward Thomas
Charleston by Henry Timrod
Grodek by Georg Trakl
Lament by Georg Trakl
On The Eastern Front by Georg Trakl
Trumpets by Georg Trakl
Alas For Us Soldiers by Anonymous
Carol For The Victory At Agincourt by Anonymous
The Evils Of War by Anonymous
Mademoiselle From Armentieres by Anonymous
A Riddle by Anonymous
Song For A Fallen Warrior by Anonymous
The Artilleryman's Vision by Walt Whitman
First Snow In Alsace by Richard Wilbur
A Vision Of The Civil War by Byron Forceythe Willson
Night Of Battle by Yvor Winters
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by William Butler Yeats
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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From Homer and Virgil to Byron and Yeats, from Shelley and Whitman to Auden and Stevens, from ancient China's anonymous bards to Poland's Mickiewicz and Israel's Amichai, poets of all times, places, and sensibilities have been moved to write about war. Here are more than one hundred of their most memorable poems, ranging from Horace on the Battle of Actium to Adrienne Rich's Vietnam-era "Newsreel." An extraordinary anthology.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Everyman's Library (October 12, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0375407901
• ISBN-13: 978-0375407901
• Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 0.8 x 6.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Memorable and Moving, July 20, 2007

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R. G. Keeling "willpenny" (kentucky) - See all my reviews
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This anthology has something for every poetic taste. From the epic heroism of The Iliad , to the sorrowing irony of " After Blenham ", to the heart stopping horror of " The Death of The Ball Turret Gunner ". There are 115 poems witten by soldiers , poets , authors ; both famous and obscure. Thoughtfully edited in a way to ultimately frame a fine tribute to the soldier across the ages. An interest in military history could be helpful for the sake of context ,although the strength of the collection is not in the history , but in the humanity.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great collection of prose, October 21, 2010

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This review is from: War Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Hardcover)

I thoroughly enjoyed thumbing through this volume the first time... it has a lot of good poems and a few that I found particularly moving, such as Farewell to Arms and The War in Heaven. This is a good book for any Soldier to have.

3 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eclectic collection of poems about war, September 26, 2000

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David J. Rothman "cook daddy" (Fayetteville, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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Good survey of the poetic reaction to war from the Illiad to Wallace Stevens.