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Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice, this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of First World War Poetry. The sequence of poems is random - making it ideal for dipping into - and drawn from a number of sources, mixing both well-known and less familiar poetry.
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The work of 21 poets is represented: including Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Ivor Gurney, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Mew, Alice Meynell, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon and Edward Thomas.
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful little book, an essential buy,
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This review is from: Poems of the Great War: 1914-1918 (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)
This little book has a vast treasury of poems of the first World War. All my favourites could be found, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke and many others, totalling over 80 poems in all. A very readable book, bringing back memories of poems read long ago. The scenes described are evocative, harrowing, heart-warming. Be prepared to be brought to tears. I would highly recommend this book for any bookshelf and it is particularly appropriate as an introduction to war poetry.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Pocket sized,
By Mark B (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Poems of the Great War: 1914-1918 (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)
A little disappointed with this book as it is basically a pocket sized very basic book. If you wanted a book to slip in your jacket pocket, then great, but the title led me to expect more than this.
A random organisation of contents also disappoints. A couple of obvious ommissions. Laurence BINYON's "For the fallen" being the most obvious. A small pocket sized book ideal for a journey, but not likely to stretch the academic amongst you.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A small anthology comprising many famous war poems,
By Asha Sahni (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Poems of the Great War: 1914-1918 (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)
A pocked-sized book which brings together a lot of my favourite war poems including Wilfred Owen's "Anthem For Doomed Youth", Siegfried Sassoon's "Enemies", Edward Thomas's "The Owl" and Issac Rosenberg's "Break Of Day In The Trenches". It introduced me to other poems I warmed to but had not read before including May Wedderburn Cannan's "Lamplight", Margaret Postgate Cole's "The Veteran" and Ivor Gurney's "To His Love". I enjoy the scattering of poems with seemingly no logical order - it encourages random opening to discover new and old pearls.
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