- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (28 Nov 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141180099
- ISBN-13: 978-0141180090
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 415,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The recent PBS 8-part miniseries THE GREAT WAR sparked renewed interest in the First World War. More than photographs or eyewitness reports, the poetry written during the embedded the horror of the war in our consciousness. Now, supplemented with five new poems, the works of 38 British, European, and American writers collected here include some of the most outstanding and poignant poems of this century.
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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
It's regrettable that this is probably the best selling World War One poetry anthology, because it's a mess. Silkin's fabled introduction is one of the most garbled and incoherant introductions to the war poets ever written, and the poetry itself is notoriously erratic in it's choice. Yes, the old favourites are there - Sassoon, Owen, Brooke et al. throng the ranks, but Silkin glosses over the huge amount of women's poetry (readdressed, thankfully, in Catherine Reilly's excellent "Scars Upon My Heart"), and misses out on many of the poems written post war about the war experience. As usual, popularist voices of the war like the thousands who published in magazines like Punch and The Strand are dismissed, and although voices such as oft neglected Ivor Gurney are given space, it is no surprise that Wilfred Owen yet again dominates the text with eighteen poems. Silkin's apparent choice to travel further afield for war poets from all sides of the conflict is admirable but leads again to an unfocussed feel to the anthology. Thank goodness Penguin are compiling a newer version...
"Out of the heart's sickness the spirit wrote
For delight, or to escape hunger, or of war's worst anger,
When the guns died to silence and men would gather sense
Somehow together, and find this was life indeed"
8 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I would like to say well done to the publishers of this book it helped me with my assignement for world war one and got me a good grade. if you are doing any sort of assignement on world war one suggest you be the book.
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful
you'll want to share this book with others
30 Mar 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I have always loved writing poetry, but have often found it hard to read the works of other writers. This book changed me; I have read and re-read the poems collected in this book countless times. It never ceases to move me. The poems offer insight into life, death, love, and the meaning of patriotism. These poems helped me come closer to understanding the experiences of soldiers. Though written many years before I was even born, the themes throughout the book can still be related to today.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Against Forgetting
29 Jun 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book has done so much to call us not to forget our own humanity. The impersonal power of war, the dehumanization of violent death at the hands of other humans- such tragedies as these call us to remember who we are as humans. It is one of the peculiarities of life that it is often at the brink of destruction that we see most clearly what our hearts have always spoken to us. In the violence of war and conflict, our thoughts often return to the simple things of life; the laughter of a child who lived next door, the smell of spring, the faces of old schoolmates.
This collection of poetry serves its title well. Only one poem spoken aptly to our heart calls us to our true selves, against forgetting.
You may also find the poems of Hermann Hesse of importance in this regard, along with Against Forgetting
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry: Revised Edition (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
28 Aug 2009
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This anthology captures the stunning impact WWI had on European society, particualrly its youth who had entered the 20th century convinced it would be a golden age. Instead, the carnage laid bare the sharp societal divisions and inequities at the core of Europe, leading to a newfound cynicism directed at the Continent's governments of empire. This essential volume includes works by lesser-known poets, as well as the cherished standards by Rupert Brooke, Rudyard Kipling and their peers.
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