World War I Collection Spotlight - Poetry

1) Above the dreamless dead: World War I in poetry and comics

Description

As the Great War dragged on and its catastrophic death toll mounted, a new artistic movement found its feet in the United Kingdom. The Trench Poets, as they came to be called, were soldier-poets dispatching their verse from the front lines. Known for its rejection of war as a romantic or noble enterprise, and its plainspoken condemnation of the senseless bloodshed of war, Trench Poetry soon became one of the most significant literary moments of its...

2) The collected poems of Wilfred Owen

Author

Owen, Wilfred

Series

New Directions paperbook volume 210

3) Muse of fire: World War I as seen through the lives of the soldier poets

Author

Korda, Michael

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"The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets in Michael Korda’s epic Muse of Fire. Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe it best, and indeed to symbolize the war’s tragic arc and lethal fury. His epic narrative begins with...

4) Poems of Rupert Brooke

Author

Brooke, Rupert

5) Poetry of the First World War: an anthology

6) Rupert Brooke & Wilfred Owen

Author

Brooke, Rupert

Series

Everyman's poetry volume 23

7) Selected poems and prose

Author

Thomas, Edward

Series

Penguin classics

8) Some desperate glory: the first World War the poets knew

Author

Egremont, Max

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The story of World War I, through the lives and words of its poets The hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars is in 2014. And while World War I devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry-words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else. The poets-many of whom were killed-show not only the war's tragedy but also the hopes and disappointments...

9) The war poems

Author

Sassoon, Siegfried

10) War requiem

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The horrors of war and the pacifist sentiments expressed in Benjamin Britten's War requiem and the poems of Wilfred Owen are evoked in scenes and vignettes illustrating death and suffering in World War I.