Poetry of the First World War [Library Binding]

Edward Hudson (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1989

This anthology of First World War poetry consists of the works of a wide range of poets, many of whom were killed in the war. Accompanying each poem is a contemporary photograph, taken in such areas as the forward trenches, behind the lines and in the base camps. The anthology is arranged chronologically, beginning with the patriotic, jingoistic fervour of 1914, and then gradually charting the move to a more realistic mood, culminating in the disillusion, resignation and anger felt so strongly by the men at the front. The poets included range from A.E.Housman and Thomas Hardy, whose writing influenced the soldier poets, to those who actually fought at the front, such as Brooke, Sassoon and Owen. There are some unexpected contributions from those who volunteered, but did not see active service, such as Laurence Binyon and W.W.Gibson, and Rudyard Kipling, who had written about soldiers long before the War, and whose only son was killed in action.

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Epilogue by Richard Aldington
Field Manoeuvres by Richard Aldington
Soliloquy 2 by Richard Aldington
Outposts by F. W. Bendall
For The Fallen (september 1914) by Laurence Binyon
Concert Party: Busseboom by Edmund Charles Blunden
The Watchers by Edmund Charles Blunden
1914: 1. Peace by Rupert Brooke
1914: 5. The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
Two Voices by David Wescott Brown
Elegy In A Country Churchyard by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
From The Somme by Leslie Coulson
Who Made The Law That Men Should Die In Meadows? by Leslie Coulson
The Deserter by Gilbert Frankau
Back by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Breakfast by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
The Conscript by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
In The Gallery Where The Fat Men Go by Louis Golding
The Dead Fox Hunter by Robert Ranke Graves
Goliath And David by Robert Ranke Graves
Two Fusiliers by Robert Ranke Graves
Into Battle by Julian Grenfell
Prayer For Those On The Staff by Julian Grenfell
Ballad Of The Three Spectres by Ivor Gurney
The Target by Ivor Gurney
In Our Of Heart Of Hearts Believing by Thomas Hardy
After The Battle by Alan Patrick Herbert
Beaucourt Revisited by Alan Patrick Herbert
Back To Rest by William Noel Hodgson
Before Action by William Noel Hodgson
England To Her Sons by William Noel Hodgson
Glimpse by William Noel Hodgson
An Epitaph by Alfred Edward Housman
High Wood by Philip Johnstone
A Dead Statesman; Epitaph Of The War, 1914-18 by Rudyard Kipling
Gethsemane 1914-1918 by Rudyard Kipling
I Tracked Down A Dead Man Down A Trench by W. S. Lyon
In Flanders Fields by John Mccrae
Gold Braid, Sels. by Alan Alexander Milne
Noon by Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols
Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
Apologia Pro Poemate Meo by Wilfred Owen
Disabled by Wilfred Owen
Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
Exposure by Wilfred Owen
The Parable Of The Old Men And The Young by Wilfred Owen
Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen
My Men Go Wearily by Herbert Read
Winter Warfare by Edgell A. Rickword
Break Of Day In The Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg
The Plunging Limbers Over The Shattered Truck by Isaac Rosenberg
Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon
Attack by Siegfried Sassoon
Base Details by Siegfried Sassoon
Blighters by Siegfried Sassoon
Counter-attack by Siegfried Sassoon
The Death-bed by Siegfried Sassoon
Does It Matter? - Losing Your Legs? by Siegfried Sassoon
The Dug-out by Siegfried Sassoon
Fight To A Finish by Siegfried Sassoon
The General by Siegfried Sassoon
Glory Of Women by Siegfried Sassoon
The Redeemer by Siegfried Sassoon
Suicide In The Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon
To Any Dead Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
A Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
Barbed Wire by R. H. Sauter
Rendezvous by Alan Seeger
Rendezvous by Alan Seeger
Sonnet (3) by Charles Hamilton Sorley
The Dilemma by John Collings Squire
As The Team's Head Brass by Philip Edward Thomas
A Listening Post by Robert Ernest Vernede
The Night Patrol by Arthur Graeme West
The Magpies In Picardy by T. P. Cameron Wilson
Sportsmen In Paradise by T. P. Cameron Wilson
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Library Binding: 128 pages
• Publisher: Lerner Pub Group (L); Library edition edition (November 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852106670
• ISBN-13: 978-1852106676
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,852,638 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)